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Toward a Social Compact...
...handsome living were promptly forgotten, and his strange etchings, too. But with the renewed scholarly interest in 19th century German art, and in the sources of that anonymous stuff called "modernism," it was natural that Klinger should be exhumed. This job, and more, has been done by an elegantly compact show of Klinger graphics assembled by Jan von Adlmann for the Wichita Art Museum, where it opened this month before traveling to Berkeley and Harvard...
Today tries to be a nightly magazine, but is thin on hard news while crammed with columns and features, including a recent series on group sex. Wendt characterizes his tabloid as "a compact" because it is both small in size and short on space. He argues that afternoon audiences are distracted at home by TV, the kids and household chores. "The evening reader doesn't have all night," he says. "We're attempting to get the maximum amount of information into the minimum amount of space, while providing enough facts to satisfy an intelligent reader." The formula...
...Cougar outsells Pontiac's Firebird. The elegant Continental Mark III, brought out in 1968, has picked up 19% of the luxury-car market, which was once the all but exclusive preserve of Cadillac. The most rapidly rising model is the $2,400 German-built Capri, a sports compact that Lincoln-Mercury began importing last year. Estimated 1971 sales: 50,000 cars...
...impressive young pros to join the tour in years. A star high school fullback in Wichita, Kans., he was wooed by football scouts from several colleges. Instead he chose to go to Oklahoma State on a golf scholarship, where he won the 1968 N.C.A.A. championship. Relying on a rhythmically compact swing, he won $37,193 in his first full season on the tour, and was named the 1969 Rookie of the Year. Off to a so-so start after winning $55,913 last season, Jones echoes the sentiments of all the pro prodigies when he says: "My day is coming...