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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ARTEMUS C. WARD Moose Jaw, Sask...
...haul (see FOREIGN NEWS), Secretary of State Christian Herter flew back to the U.S. At Washington's Military Air Transport Service Terminal, Herter got a big welcome from State Department aides, the British and French ambassadors, wives and children of his Geneva team. Said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon: "Congratulations." Herter lifted his scraggly eyebrows and looked at Dillon quizzically...
...shock of un-Gandhian bloodshed in Kerala made Congress leaders reverse themselves. The first reason was moral: the realization that to oust a legally installed government by mass defiance would set a bad precedent for Indian democracy. One of India's most respected leaders, former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari. So, declared that the methods Gandhi used against the British were not justified "when there is a remedy open according to law." The second reason for the about-face was practical. What had really shaken the Congress Party's nerve was a Communist threat that, unless the Kerala campaign...
Prizes & Pedigree. Since then, there has been no stopping César. "I am like a dog with a pedigree. I've won prizes," he says. "In the studio I want to shake things. I like things to be brutal. If I see that one of my pieces is pretty, I smash it-if I have the courage." Few of the 27 pieces (at $800 to $6,075)in last week's exhibition failed to pass César's own standards of brutality and ugliness. Homage to Brancusi is a big iron egg covered with spikes...
Standing behind his towering welded shields, César now philosophically observes all Gaul at his feet. The only one who seems to have any doubts is César himself. When passion is spent and the iron is cool, he views his own works with sobering detachment. Says César: "I wind up foreign to my sculptures, and see them lucidly. The result is I'm always kicking myself in the rear...