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...flock of its studies and sketches that reveal the working method, the small adjustments, tunings and abstractions that come between the first view and the final painting. If Wyeth were Rubens the spectacle would be fascinating. But since he seems to work upward from illustration and his capable brisk notes are mostly unremarkable as drawing, the cumulative effect of all those little brown studies is numbing...
...white regimes have adopted contrasting political postures. In Zaire (pop. 25,600,000), which has been receiving U.S. military and economic aid to counter Soviet influence in neighboring Angola, strongman President Mobutu Sese Seko takes a firm stand against Rhodesia and South Africa in public while carrying on a brisk covert trade (perhaps as much as $100 million a year) with the white regimes. Malawi (pop. 5,100,000) practically flaunts its desire for cordial relations with the white governments. Says the country's U.S.-educated President, Hastings Kamuzu Banda: "I'd trade with the devil...
With the first team tentatively set, the coaches have begun to shift emphasis for the league season. Instead of concentrating on installing plays and testing personnel, the top priority will be to polish and sharpen execution. The atmosphere of camp, best described as emotionally brisk rather than spirited, must give way to the series of weekly buildups necessary to repeat as Ivy Champs...
Helmholz has even more exotic skills to impart. He does a brisk business styling men's chest hair into shamrocks, peace signs, hearts and other shapes on request. His torso tonsures, however, are done strictly with clippers...
...Brisk Escort. The networks trained their combined force of 84 cameras in and around the arena on almost anything that moved, including the delegate, late Tuesday night, who brandished a hand-lettered sign that read: JANET, ORDER ME TWO EGGS AND COFFEE. I'LL BE THERE IN 30 MINUTES. Then there was Delegate Dene Pace of Corinth, Miss., who told Mike Wallace on CBS that she had waited for "a vision from the Lord" before making up her mind, and that the Lord had just sent word-"Ford...