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...contemporary paintings get less contemporary, U.S. museums are finding room on their walls for more & more of them. In Colorado Springs last week, the Fine Arts Center was showing its regular biennial loan exhibition, "New Accessions, U.S.A.,'' made up of modern canvases acquired by 33 U.S. museums...
...hundreds of thousands of U.S. tourists who are swarming across Europe this summer, a great number will visit Venice and ride in a gondola. A few of them will go to see Venice's 26th biennial exhibition, one of the biggest contemporary art shows ever staged. It has been characterized as a cornucopia of riches (more than 3,000 entries from 27 nations), and as a pain in the craning neck. The riches are there, and it takes craning to find them...
...Early this year, the Council for Social Action was itself criticized by some church members for 1) a left-of-center point of view, and 2) a tendency to make pronouncements on behalf of the entire church membership (TIME, March 17). At the Congregationalists' biennial conference in Claremont, Calif. last week, delegates, by a vote of 689 to 31, approved the council's program "with commendation," but asked the council to speak for itself and not for the church in its Washington lobbying...
...Claremont, Calif, one day last week, delegates to the Congregationalists' biennial general council nonetheless met for another discussion of the proposed union. After a debate that lasted far into the night, they voted 964 to 55 "to continue to look forward" to a merger, appointed a committee to work out details with Reformed Church leaders. But they agreed to go slow until the merger argument has been threshed out in the courts...
Finally, outraged anti-Communist officers in the Clube Militar united in a "Democratic Crusade" aimed at ousting Estillac Leal in the club's biennial election. To oppose him, they picked General Alcides Gonçalves Etchegoyen, 51, bull-necked chief of Rio's armored division. In a scorching campaign, Estillac Leal denounced his opponents as men who were plotting to give away Brazil's petroleum and mineral riches. Etchegoyen promised to "rid the club of totalitarian influences from left & right." On the appointed day last week, with most of the club's 16,003 members voting...