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...Alabama. Local Democrats will now be forced to offer alternatives to these Goldwater men, and if such candidates need Negro votes, they will in all probability become more liberal. Because it would give moderates an accepted forum, the introduction of a two-party dialogue cannot help but improve the dismal plight of Negroes in these states...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Southern Defection | 11/5/1964 | See Source »

French impressionism. Yet, except for Lenin Prizewinner Aleksandr Deineka's husky peasant girls, which Estorick probably bought for diplomatic reasons, the show is not a dismal display of the Russian Tractor Style. Instead, the rest of the exhibition is heavy with still lifes and landscapes, competent, vaguely Western, strangely empty of invention. Perhaps half a dozen of the 82 artists are important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Soviet Art in London | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

...Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races, and in the 15 years since Citation, odds-on favorites have lost seven times. Two, like the Dancer, were trying for a triple: Tim Tarn in 1958 (a broken-legged second), and Carry Back in 1961 (a dismal seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Q & A | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...point, Willie's debts topped $100,000, and his lawyers recommended bankruptcy. That year, Mays led the league in home runs, batted .304-and collapsed from nervous exhaustion in the dugout in September. Starting the 1963 season, he went through the first month tense, nervous, and hitting a dismal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Mays in May | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...Trail, which is named for North Viet Nam's longtime Red ruler. But despite its aggressive stance, the Red North is beset by serious internal troubles. Last week, amid streamers and red lanterns, wispy-chinned President Ho Chi Minh himself strode into polling station No. 24 in his dismal capital of Hanoi. Officially described as "solid, nimble and in high spirits" despite his 74 years, Ho delivered a speech praising his "free and democratic" regime, then elaborately marked his ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: And Meanwhile What's Happening up North? | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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