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...Historian Daniel Robbins gives a fascinating account of the plaster colossi produced by the cohabitation of raw new capital, laissez-faire idealism and academic talent. He also shows how the desire for emblematic icons of American history- realized by such grand-scale performers of the period as Augustus Saint-Gaudens-eventually made an accommodation with modern style through art deco. In the studios of beaux-arts figures like Saint-Gaudens and Karl Bitter, as well as those of decorators like Paul Manship and protomodernists like Gaston Lachaise, John Storrs and Elie Nadelman, sculpture made its last pub lic stand before...
Brown corporation member Augustus A. White, a member of both the selection committees, said yesterday that students in the original committee "placed too much emphasis on the quality of personal contacts of students with the president when considering candidates." White says he feels the president's ability to administrate, to raise and manage funds, and attract a good faculty should be the selection committee's first priority...
...today at a historic crossroad," said Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. "We can accept the policies that have brought stagflation. Or we can . . . replace them with a new economics." He was referring to the "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976," which he has co-authored with California Representative Augustus Hawkins and which is rapidly becoming a kind of election manifesto for liberal Democrats. The true purpose of last week's hearings was to give national exposure to the legislation...
...sharper clash may come on a more comprehensive bill being pushed by two Democrats, Senator Hubert Humphrey and Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California. It would set "full employment" as a national goal to be met within perhaps three years; 3% would be the target unemployment rate. The President would have to submit plans to provide every American "able and willing to work" with a job, using a "standby job corps" to hire those unable to find employment. The independent Federal Reserve Board would be required to tailor its monetary policies to meet the employment target-a step toward a planned...
Married. John S. Knight, 81, editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, who in 1968 won a Pulitzer Prize for his incisive column, "The Editor's Notebook"; and Elizabeth Good Augustus, 74, wealthy breeder of thoroughbreds; he for the third time, she for the second; in Bal Harbour...