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...draw the cover, we called on Cartoonist Paul Conrad, who is not much of a racing fan but has a keen eye for political horseflesh. Although this is his first magazine cover, his witty vignettes have often appeared in TIME'S pages. At 42, one of the country's top editorial cartoonists, Conrad has his home base at the Los Angeles Times, but 150 other newspapers use his work, which illustrates Aldous Huxley's observation that caricature is the "most penetrating" of criticism...
...Like Conrad, Becker is fascinated by the tactical struggles of daily life, the strategic deployments that bring one man success and another failure. Philips will go far in his nation, but he remains a man without friends. Morrison wants passionately the pastoral simplicity he sees in the Lani, but it is almost his undoing when he learns the hard way that syphilis is endemic among the bush people. Becker has filled his story with lush scenery and pungent characters and built it as solidly as Morrison's bridge...
With Africa, as with other things, distance lends enchantment. Instead of comparing their experience to an ordinary job at home, the young corpsmen weigh it against the intensity of Conrad's portraits of Graham Greene's matter-of-fact spirituality, and their anticipations resist all attempts to bring them into line with actuality; the ideas have a life of their...
...apparent loss in quality. University officials, however, insist that they will have to limit admissions next year to keep within the budget, which is still a matter of much controversy within the state. Reagan has been roundly denounced for his cost-trimming efforts-most notably by Cartoonist Bill Conrad of the Los Angeles Times (see cuts). Editorially, the Times has been cool to the Governor's tuition proposal, and to a budget cut that would affect university quality...
...rest last week: Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee at Arlington, and Edward White at West Point. Of all those who paid tribute to the three who died earthbound on a launch pad at Cape Kennedy, no one put the meaning of their deaths into clearer perspective than the Rev. Conrad Winborn, pastor of Ed White's home church in Seabrook, Texas. "Let us not expect to sing the victor's song," said he, "unless we are willing to risk the harsh notes of tragic loss and personal sacrifice...