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Among the finest items: a bronze ritual vessel from China in the form of a rhinoceros, dating from the 12th century B.C.; a Mogul miniature painting of Krishna, tense as a strung bow, awaiting his beloved; and a fantastic carpet from 17th century Lahore (see color). The carpet begins at the top with peaceful scenes of partying, moves to a gazelle hunt, with swift cheetahs used as hunting dogs, and then explodes in a wild fantasy. While tigers watch, a giant griffin with an elephant's head ferociously descends on a circle of black elephants, but is itself swooped...
...into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey and other Manhattan G.O.P. bigwigs had cold-shouldered him). Insiders reported that Rocky had all but decided to bow out before starting on his Midwestern trip, had even authorized a preliminary draft of his exit lines. Apparently the results of the trip did nothing to change his mind...
After he won a House of Commons seat in 1945, some Tory bluebloods sniffed at "that rather revolting little man with the spotted bow tie who is always getting himself in the newspaper diary paragraphs." But when Harold Macmillan as Housing Minister fell heir to the almost impossible job of keeping the Tory campaign pledge to build 300,000 houses in a year, he shrewdly selected energetic Ernie as his No. 2. It was a strange team, but they...
...INRA is supposed to provide a "vital minimum" of 66 free acres for each peasant family, though peasants who receive land from INRA may not sell it and must farm it as INRA directs. In practice, with a bow to Russia or Red China, INRA has concentrated on state-bossed cooperative farms, which so far number 485, equipped with 1,771 new INRA tractors. (Castro recently complained that INRA's major obstacle was "U.S. industrial strife," i.e., the steel strike, which has slowed delivery of farm machinery.) INRA has handed out small plot deeds to just 91 peasant farmers...
...both seated at Stein-ways. Then Leonard Bernstein launched his assembled forces into Bach's Concerto in C for Three Pianos. A part of last week's special Bach Christmas program by the New York Philharmonic, the concerto was ably executed, drew enthusiastic applause and an extra bow by the performers. The odd thing about the performance: Bernstein's fellow pianists had never before played for such an audience. They were David M. Keiser, board chairman of the Cuban-American Sugar Co. and president of the New York Philharmonic, and Carlos Moseley, the orchestra's associate...