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...Talk & Chop. Formed three years ago, the Liberation Front has a "cabinet" composed of South Vietnamese; the "chairman" is Nguyen Huu Tho, 53, a Saigon-born, French-educated lawyer. But naturally, he is only a local coverup for North Viet Nam's Red Boss, Ho Chi Minh. The Front's "capital" is believed to be the Viet Cong's military GHQ, which is situated deep in the jungle 75 miles northwest of Saigon, conveniently close to the Cambodian frontier, and protected by a maze of fortifications plus 1,000 elite troops. From there, a disciplined apparatus extends...
...joined the "poets unfashionable" like A. E. Housman and Rupert Brooke who "condescend to rhyme and scan and take care," White told a Library of Congress audience. After a decent interval, he will be rediscovered, but for the nonce, said T.H. of T.S., "he is out-due for the chop. Eliot is no longer cool. He's square...
...Columbia. Perhaps this is one way in which Washington's Negroes are responsible for their own misfortunes; Southern members of the House District Committee, resentful of giving money to an integrated and 85 per cent Negro school system, refuse to provide enough money for the schools. They regularly chop the District's budget far below the levels recommended by the President and the three District Commissioners, the men who theoretically run the city, but who actually are little better than ambassadors to the District Committees...
...images that haunt Bacon haunt his viewers even more. Great bisected sides of beef are constant and chilly recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations...
...concession in Egypt. One of the youngest men ever to head a major U.S. oil company, South Carolina-born Swearingen joined Standard as a chemical engineer at 20, rose through research and production to become president at 39. He has drastically consolidated a sprawling organization, using automation to chop the work force by 25% while increasing output. In his office overlooking Lake Michigan, Swearingen himself writes the president's column for the company magazine, expressing bluntly conservative views. He travels often, tending Standard's interests from Iran to Australia. Home is a suburb north of Chicago, with...