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Modernist Jackson Pollock, whose crisscrossed canvases sometimes resemble a battlefield seen from 40,000 feet or a culture of bacteria seen through a microscope, had heretofore escaped precise definition. Now he appeared in the vanguard of the new movement, flanked by such other ultra-ultras as William Baziotes and Adolph Gottlieb...
...Vietnam Union is helping "students (or their families) who fail victims of French atrocities or violence, or who die in the battlefield . . . (and) by means of lectures, dramas, musical concerts. . . working to raise the people's consciousness regarding the notions of independence, democracy...
...Warwickshire. He was a "queer, happy little boy," who would play soldier ("Napoleonic period") by the hour, and could recite the Lays of Ancient Rome by heart. At school, he was happiest arguing the Roundhead cause against his pro-Cavalier school chums, or wandering about some nearby battlefield with his history-minded house master ("O boy, you oughtn't to have a hot bath twice a week; you'll get like the later Romans...
Mario Scelba sat impassive, surveying the battlefield with agate eyes. It was the worst brawl the Italian Parliament had seen in a long time. Some believed the Communists had deliberately started the fight. Said Il Popolo: "... A deliberate maneuver to debase the dignity and efficiency of Parliament...
...specifically on the new boss of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Beaten and routed in the guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World Wars, an ex-National Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars...