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...decree, and for good measure dissolved Brazil's 13 political parties; in their place, he created a majority government party called ARENA and a mild opposition catchall called M.D.B. Early this month, in an indirect election by Congress, ARENA'S presidential candidate-ex-War Minister, Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64-swept easily to victory, and is to take office next March. With that accomplished, Castello Branco fortnight ago felt secure enough to draw up another decree and order out of Congress six morefederal Deputies whom he does not like...
Foujita is still painting. Last week he joined that select group, with Matisse, Jean Cocteau and Le Corbusier, who have created their own chapels. He was baptized only seven years ago (he took the name Leonard in honor of Da Vinci), and with age he decided, "It is time to think about a spiritual legacy." He convinced the director of the Mumm champagne firm to put up $300,000 to build and landscape the chapel above their wine caves near Reims. Foujita did 1,076 sq. ft. of frescoes inside the 47-ft.-long chapel, including a side chapel honoring...
...Chun Bo-da...
Warhol's art-work does not present itself as a challenge to the eclat of Da Vinci and Rembrandt. Rather than attempting to sweep the viewer into the inventive world of the artist, Warhol's painting is a creative attempt to bring a sense of color and design back into daily life
...parties were melded into two-an official government party known as ARENA and an official opposition party called MODEBRAS. Naturally, ARENA dominated Congress, and so when Castello Branco decreed that the next President would be elected by Congress, the opposition finked out. That left the field to Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva, 64, former War Minister, leader of the army's ultra-conservative "hard line," and by far its most powerful general. Nominated in May by ARENA, Costa e Silva became the only candidate for President...