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Pocket of Hostility. Abruptly, this routine transaction became big news. Political purists of varying degrees of sincerity howled that Klein's joint nomination could be nothing but a deal between spoils-hungry bosses of both parties. The situation was machine-made for Senator Robert F. Kennedy's benefit. When he became the state's junior Senator in 1964, the new New Yorker was clearly on the way to becoming its No. 1 Democrat as well. But there was still a pocket of hostility within Tammany Hall, and some coolness between Bobby and the other two important factions...
...four-year term with a solid (56,000 to 38,000) primary victory over conservative State Legislator James S. Erwin, also 45. Chairman of the National Governors' Conference, Reed faces a stiff challenge from the Democratic nominee, Secretary of State Kenneth M. Curtis, 35, but stands to benefit from U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith's presence on the G.O.P. ticket. In her quest for a fourth term, the redoubtable Mrs. Smith has a little-known opponent-the Democrats apparently figuring that to mount a determined challenge would only bring out a Smith vote that could swamp their entire...
...Poetry. Some 2,000 shaggies and stringies in mod costume settled down for a cultural evening that began with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon was down, leonine Poet Robert Graves, 70, advised the kids on using drugs: "A real person needs nothing like that." Unnecessary advice, since most...
Obsessed Parents. The N.E.A. report argues that income alone does not determine who can benefit by earlier schooling. Just as disadvantaged are "pampered" children or those whose parents "are obsessed with the need to impress and achieve" and "show them little love." For all children, says the report, the first four or five years of life are the period of most rapid mental growth in which "exposure to a wide variety of activities and of social and mental interactions greatly enhances a child's ability to learn...
Nonetheless, some experts question whether children from emotionally healthy homes would benefit much by earlier schooling. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, contends that "kids who are sent away from home before age five feel rejected." They also are generally too "self-interested" to either "socialize" or "pay attention to real learning," he argues. Superintendent Lester Ball of the Oak Park, Ill., schools believes that "the average suburban environment can be as good or better than a school" for a four-year...