Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unequaled among the great gifts received by the Museum of Modern Art," exulted Director of Collections Alfred H. Barr Jr. After months of negotiations, the museum landed 100 works by 54 20th century painters and sculptors from the private collection of New York Dealer Sidney Janis, 70, a Buffalo-born former shirt manufacturer who began collecting contemporary art in the late '20s, opened his quick-stepping, publicity-prone Manhattan gallery in 1948. The collection, valued at upwards of $2,000,000, has everything from Picasso and a $50,000 Mondrian, which Janis bought from the artist...
More numerous are the front-line warriors, commissioned and enlisted alike. Lieut. Colonel James Frank Hamlet, 45, of Buffalo, is a hard-riding Negro battalion commander of the 1st Air Cavalry Division (Airmobile), the elite "First Team" that has killed more Viet Cong than any other U.S. division in the war. The 600 men who fly Hamlet's 75 Hueys-and carry many of the Air Cav's troopers into combat-respect him for riding along on even the hottest missions and for talking straight to his bosses. Hamlet, who enlisted as a private in 1943, likes...
...ironic fact s that often the adults with whom alienated students do establish contact are themselves narcotics users. Example: ast month Yale's popular Art History Instructor William Woody, 30, was arrested by New Haven police for possessing marijuana. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, Critic-Novelist ,Leslie Fiedler, 50, was arrested in his home during a pot-and-hashish party, together with his wife, his 26-year-old son, the son's wife and two 17-year-old boys. Fiedler, who will be tried on drug charges next month, declared that "What...
Those that do reach hospitals often get there just in time to have an arm or leg amputated. "Patients pack their wounds with water buffalo dung, and, by the time they get to a doctor, amputation is the only alternative," Dr. Constable explained...
...fourth day of a hunger strike. Four have already become too weak to go on; one of them, Carole Adams, is in the infirmary. We have received a great deal of tangible support -- a generally favorable press. TV and radio coverage, supporting telegrams from NSA and the University of Buffalo, several encouraging letters and cards, flowers from unknown supporters cartons of cigarettes and Realist reprints for our amusement...