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...kind to the artists and the scholars," said Lyndon Johnson. "Somehow," he added with a twinkle, "the scientists always seem to get the penthouse, while the arts and the humanities get the basement." Last week the President took steps to move the artists and scholars upstairs. Under a sparkling autumn sun in the Rose Garden of the White House, he signed a threeyear, $63 million bill creating a National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities that will sponsor new national troupes for the theater, opera and ballet, commission new works of music, finance visits by great artists to U.S. schools...
Christmas is still some 70 shopping days away, but the nation's retailers already have visions of new records dancing in their heads. Judging by the strength of autumn sales, they expect a 6% to 8% rise in Christmas sales, a jump that would easily round off 1965 as the buyingest year in history. Breaking sales records has become practically a Christmas tradition of recent years, and merchants would be disappointed indeed if rising population and prices together did not cause the phenomenon to occur again. What is unusual about their optimism is that this year...
...wonders. The abstract aires expressionists, for all their paint slinging often evoked a topography new in art, often but recognizable . De Kooning's splashes of green and brown are glimpses of landscape any driver who barrels down a thruway at 85 m.p.h,; Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rythm distills the essence of a smoky fall day; his skeins of paint make of a season an environment. Arshile Gorky's Water of the Flowery Mill is filled with fluid, biomorphic forms; they are of nature, but the images seem to glide gently across surface. The total impression...
Some of the tryouts and their scheduled stops between now and autumn...
...Rusk as Secretary and appoint him Ambassador to the United Nations, Kennedy said sadly, "I can't do that to Rusk; he is such a nice man." Nevertheless, writes Schlesinger, Kennedy finally decided that he would eventually have to install a more dynamic man at State. "By the autumn of 1963," says Schlesinger, "the President had reluctantly made up his mind to allow Rusk to leave after the 1964 election and to seek a new Secretary of State...