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...Modern? But whether Picasso's reputation will survive in its present form is an open question. Sir Anthony Blunt, one of England's leading art historians, flatly declares that "Picasso is no longer a modern painter," and that "after 1945, he ceased to hold the leading position in modern painting." Says Manhattan Dealer Leo Castelli: "Picasso is not an important force in modern painting now. But he is still an incredibly important figure because of what he's been. He's not just a great painter. He's one of the towering figures of this...
...Seventh Army is assigned to blunt and delay Soviet attacks from the east until stronger forces can be assembled. To accomplish this, it has infantry and armored units scattered from Frankfurt to Bavaria. About 90,000 troops are considered combat ready. They include an advance guard of the Second and 14th Armored Cavalry regiments, which patrol the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, and the Berlin Brigade. The remainder of the Seventh is of uncertain efficiency...
...frosty acres of tundra on the outskirts of Anchorage, is a carryover from the days when Alaska had not yet become an American state and Japanese soldiers were swarming through the fog and cold of Attu and Kiska. Constructed 16 months before Pearl Harbor, Elmendorf was designed to blunt a Japanese thrust at the Aleutians. This week the base was to play a far different role in Japanese-American relations. According to the prepared script, a gleaming Japan Air Lines DC-8 jet swoops down at night for a refueling stop on its 7,700-mile flight from Tokyo...
...book, Who Owns America? (Prentice-Hall; $6.95), which is being released this week in Alaska and next week in the rest of the U.S. It is partly a definition of his two years as Interior Secretary, partly an exhortation for sweeping environmental reform, partly a popular politician's blunt view of the Nixon Administration. Its hallmark: an exuberant confidence in the wisdom of the American people, provided that their elected leaders present to them issues stripped of partisan politics...
...Good morning, gentlemen. I'd like to get right to the point. The urban schools of this country are dying from financial strangulation." The speaker was Philadelphia's blunt superintendent of schools, Dr. Mark Shedd, and he was telling a Senate committee just what he saw as the nitty-gritty facts. His proposal: that the Federal Government nationalize the nation's 25 largest city systems, at a cost of $10 billion to $12 billion per year. Without "something more than pious pie-in-the-sky pronouncements," he said, "there won't be, in the words...