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Blind Alleys. Always the rebel, Cuevas rather grandly refuses to associate himself with any group, even the interioristas. But his mark and leadership are there nonetheless. "Mexican art was at a dead end. Now we are free," he said, and the other interioristas enthusiastically agree. Canadian-born Arnold Belkin. 32, one of the co-authors of the manifesto, says that Rivera, chiefly significant as a social-protest painter, had the byproduct effect of leading Mexican art "up a blind alley -two generations of picturesque Indians making tortillas or setting out candles for the Night of the Dead." When abstraction invaded...
...Erratic Whitney Reed, the U.S.'s No. 1-ranked tennis player, suffered a double loss when he was beaten by unranked Mike Belkin of Miami Beach in the first round of the National Clay Courts Championships, and then because of his poor showing was fired from the 1962 Davis Cup team by Captain Robert Kelleher. In the Clay Courts men's finals, Missouri's Chuck McKinley gave U.S. prestige a modest boost by trouncing the top foreign seed, Australia's Fred Stolle...
...suburban Cleveland shopping center last week, Piano Teacher Betty Belkin guided eight children, aged 8 and 9, through an hour's class in which the children played duets, transposed songs into different keys, ran through their own compositions at the keyboard...
...other with ten or twelve. Most groups use two or more pianos, interlace individual student workouts on the keys with duets or quartets to sharpen sight reading and harmony skills. "Group teaching is not 60 minutes sliced into ten-minute sections, one for each of six students," says Betty Belkin. "It takes planning, and you've got to know what you're going to do long before the group comes to the studio." Emulating Pace, most group teachers use flash cards to drill students in key signatures, and divide their kids into "teams" to keep competitive spirit high...
...Miss Belkin denies that finalists are disappointed at not being the "one." "As finalists, but not winners,"she says, "we had all the good effects--and none of the bad. We received very few strange calls...