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Angry Voice. Strydom's reaction was to dismiss his Boer critics as backsliders. But one angry voice he would find it hard to ignore: that of stubborn old Nicolaas Havenga. 78, Deputy Premier in Daniel Malan's Nationalist government and once Strydom's rival for power. At week's end, Havenga spoke out from retirement. "I am unhappy about this bill," Havenga said. "It may be constitutional but even Nationalists are unhappy about it. The two parties should make a new approach . . . This upheaval going on won't do the country any good...
...work which draws sneers from younger, advance-guard painters. Illustration is anecdotal, as Hopper's art is not; he avoids cute touches and tells no story. Yet because his sober realism is as different from the abstractionism now in fashion as it is from straight illustration, some abstractionists dismiss him as a mere illustrator. His pictures lack "paint quality," they say, and indeed he does lay paint on canvas as dryly and flatly as any calendar painter. But Hopper's purpose is not to seduce the eye with dribbles or explosions of paint-for-paint's-sake...
...government as "not adapted to the mission it faces." And on the French Riviera, fresh from a hard day's work shooting down 100 pigeons. Bao Dai, the puffy-faced Vietnamese Chief of State who obeys his French protectors, peremptorily summoned Diem to the Riviera, obviously intending to dismiss him. French officialdom told newsmen that Diem was a washout and should be dropped. "The sequence of [the French] reasoning seems to be thus," one Vietnamese official wrote to the New York Times. "To get rid of Premier Diem, one must sell the idea to the U.S. first . . . One must...
Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 yesterday abruptly ended the three-month preliminary battle over the contempt of Congress indictments of Wendell H. Furry and Leon J. Kamin by denying defense motions to dismiss the charges. Furry and Kamin may now be tried...
...rejection of the defense's moves to dismiss, Aldrich did not rule out future constitutional disputes or discussions of the committee authority by which Furry and Kamin were questioned. Aldrich said, however, that, since the actual testimony was not before him, he could not judge on "a framework as bare as a motion to dismiss...