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...first meeting with the foreign press, the barrel-chested Namphy exhibited a whimsical personality. He spoke as he cut a zigzag path through a room in the palace filled with busts of past Haitian Presidents. When a woman reporter pressed for specific answers about his plans for the country, Namphy pinched her cheek. Said he: "We have only been the government three days, and those have been holidays. Give us a break...
Organizationally, the odds were always stacked in favor of Marcos and his governing New Society Movement (K.B.L.). The President's war chest bulged with about $160 million in campaign funds, and he also had at his disposal uncounted millions from the government pork barrel...
Despite the presence of four unsightly shanties in the shadow of a huge ice sculpture on Dartmouth Green, there were few visible signs of political discontent. Instead, students seemed bent on festivities like barrel-jumping, skiing, and, of course, beer drinking...
Last weekend's winter carnival--a traditional extravaganza of ice sculptures, barrel jumping, and fraternity parties--was only a temporary reprieve from the recent tension...
...1930s wind-tunnel shapes appeared everywhere. A gorgeous blue- lacquered maple desk (1933) designed by Paul Frankl avoided the cartoony extremes and actually evoked the future accurately; the piece might have been designed last week. Loewy's pencil sharpener (1934) is delightfully and uselessly aerodynamic, its barrel jutting forward at the angle of a poster- perfect Soviet worker marching into the future. Then there was Buck Rogers as penthouse playboy: Walter Dorwin Teague's lingerie-sexy blue glass radio (1936) and Ely Jacques Kahn's spherical aluminum ice bucket (1940), shiny and synthetically...