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...implied warranty"-or a breach of it. If a man bought a toy that later exploded in his child's face, he had a breach-ofwarranty action only against the toy store, not the toy manufacturer, with whom he had no direct relationship. This so-called "citadel of privity" was notably undermined in a New York case that stemmed from the 1959 crash of an American Airlines Lockheed Electra into the East River during an instrument approach to La Guardia Airport. Mrs. Anneliese Goldberg, whose daughter was among the 63 victims, filed suit, claiming that the accident was caused...
Overlooking the plains to the south, where Don Quixote tilted at windmills, the first Museum of Spanish Abstract Art (see opposite page) opened this month in the citadel city of Cuenca. Three years of restoration went into the 20-room museum housed in 15th century buildings which crane over a gorge that drops some 600 feet. The prime mover is a wealthy Philippine-born painter named Fernando Zóbel, 42, who has taken from his collection 120 paintings, 200 drawings and twelve sculptures by fellow Spanish moderns to hang in the quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business...
Once a staid citadel of baroque piety, the church in Spain has been torn by shock after shock since police attacked a group of picketing priests in Barcelona last May. Four Catholic publications have defied the hierarchy's wishes by referring to the incident-and three of them were promptly banned by nervous government censors. Last month, after leaders of the 200,000-member Catholic Action approved a resolution calling for separation of church and state, the bishops denounced the statement as being too political in intent, then banned all future meetings of the organization...
This would never do. Paris was the vaunted citadel of artistic adventure, haven for the misunderstood, and all that. So Boulez (rhymes not with hooray but with who says) was lured back on several occasions to direct the French National Orchestra, and was even offered the important post of director of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra. (He turned it down.) In 1963, the Paris Opera gave him a free hand in producing Alban Berg's Wozzeck: he demanded and got an unprecedented 30 rehearsals, and the opera scored a major triumph. In a six-week tour de force in Paris...
...Southern justice is white. This fact shadows the Negro's every activity from driving a car to engaging in sexual intercourse; from borrowing money to suing for personal injury; from seeking police protection to defending against criminal charges. To Southern Negroes, the courthouse is not a citadel of justice. Instead, says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who recently completed a six-year study of Southern racial attitudes, the courthouse is "the symbol of where the policemen, the sheriffs, the judges, the juries, the voting registrar, the registrar of deeds and the whole structure of society is weighted against Negroes. They...