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Indeed, the mild catcalls and bilious banner-waving provided last week by several hundred Greenwich Village vigilantes in front of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art seemed a slur on the once dread name of Dada. They were protesting a survey of Dada and surrealism, replete with crispy fried canapés, Galanos evening gowns, and a "bourgeois" black-tie dinner...
...Cole) to wed. In short, the boy is a one-man international drawing-room crisis. Vidal's cute switch ploy on the miscegenation problem is to present the girl's parents as prim, upper-middle-class social conservatives who are adamantly opposed to an interracial match. They dread what their Westchester County neighbors might say, and cringe at the notoriety of having their daughter's picture appear in Ebony...
...every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They denounce it as a terror weapon because, like most rockets, it is not very accurate at long range and sometimes crashes into civilian areas instead of hitting nearby military targets...
...resigned to having a Richard Nixon ticket. Optimistic friends hoped that with an influx of G.O.P. moderates next year, Morton might even oust Dirksen from the Senate leadership. An innately shy man, Morton saw little hope. His despair was heightened by the illness of his wife and a growing dread that the G.O.P. would again be tagged with racism, irresponsibility and defeat...
...multimillionaire by inheritance as well as by his own labors-his 42,507 shares of General Motors stock alone are worth $3,257,000-Knudsen regarded his failure to move to a higher salary bracket with comparative indifference. But he looked on a dead-end career with dread...