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While the "icebox primary" was being vetoed, a state less bashful about its climate was planning a primary of its own. The Florida legislature enacted a primary bill, and much of the debate centered on a chamber of commerce theme. The contrast, Florida pols contended, between candidates sloshing through the snow in New Hampshire and shirtsleeve campaigning in Florida would be certain to help the sunshine state's tourism. Florida sought to add insult to injury by scheduling its vote for the same day as New Hampshire...
...rare Saturday session in the marble Supreme Court chamber was testimony to the importance of the two cases at issue. Dressed somberly, the opposing attorneys prepared papers for their historic confrontation before the nine robed Justices. All 300 seats in the chamber were full and newsmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the press alcove. At precisely 11 a.m., the red velvet curtains parted, the Justices took their seats, and Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, distinguished former dean of Harvard Law School, launched a 53-minute opening argument...
Etching on the Eyeball. Those projects that do triumph come out of a real interaction with, not mere use of, industrial facilities. Boyd Mefferd's room (made with the help of Universal Television) is a stunning perceptual experience: a pitch-black chamber lined with strobe lights. When they flash, the effect is engulfing and somewhat unnerving: silhouettes etch themselves on the retina as on film, and afterimage sheets of brilliant color drift and flower across the entire field of vision. Mefferd's piece is unique in that it is wholly objectless art -everything happens...
...long as I can remember, since I was a child of five. Now I'm free of them, or about to be." In fact, Helen's performing career is not quite finished; she plans to work in TV and movies, which "will serve as a decompression chamber. I'm not about to retire from living...
...been a target for two major demonstrations the preceding spring: most students peered beyond the pseudo-legal trappings it had sprouted and recognized it for what it was: a court of star chamber, an Administration witchhunt in which the Committee had all the rights and the defendants all the responsibilities...