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...Representative Robert Griffin of Michigan, 42, co-author of the Lan-drum-Griffin Labor Act and one of the most active young Republicans in the House, became a candidate for the Sen ate seat of ailing Democrat Pat Mc-Namara, 71, who is expected to retire...
...picked up a Bell & Howell, took a three-week course in cinematography in Rochester -the only film training he ever had. Returning north, he shot some terrific footage of a walrus hunt, some beautiful quiet splices of life in an igloo, some hilarious takes in which an Eskimo ate a phonograph record and got bounced on his behind by a seal. All these reels he assembled in a 70-minute film, a polar pastoral volted with the same vitality that sizzles in the Eskimo...
WHATEVER pleasures there had been in being a Renaissance man, the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, took them. Every afternoon he rode his Spanish thoroughbreds. He ate richly enough to die of gout, fathered eight children, dabbled sufficiently in diplomacy to be knighted by the King of England, and as a 53-year-old widower married a 16-year-old beauty. His love of life was so consuming that it was amazing that he had any time left in which to paint...
...three days off). Peasants in northern Europe decorated their homes with evergreens as a tribute to nature's victory over the numbing winter, held lengthy feasts and processionals. The Romans celebrated' the entire winter solstice season to honor Saturn, the god of agriculture. During the Saturnalia everyone ate, drank and exchanged presents in one long bacchanal. When the Christian missionaries began to comb the countryside for converts, they found that few were willing to give up their pagan rites. Figuring that pragmatism was called for, they combined the two holidays into the mixture of religious and secular customs...
Northeastern ate up six seconds, and then their hot shooting guard Rich Weitzman tried a 20-foot jump shot. It hit the rim and bounced high in the air. A dozen arms groped for the ball. The Huskies' nimble forward. Harry Barnes, won the battle for possession and tapped in the winning score as the buzzer sounded...