Word: duncan
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...cantankerous Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky proposes to stand for (TIME, March 9). In the past, the problem was confusingly divided between Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling, responsible for African territories that retain colonial status (Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland) and generally considered an ally by African nationalists, and Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys, who is responsible for self-governing territories (Southern Rhodesia) and has the ear of Welensky's white supremacists. It was obviously sound to end this two-way pull by putting Butler in charge, even though Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell loudly denounced it as a ''nonsensical...
Upon the recommendation of Director Duncan Clement, the Corporation last August ceased financial support of the Adkins Lab because of "increased uncertainty in Cuba" and because there was no longer assurance that funds were controlled by University personnel...
Speaking at a showing of two movies on post-revolutionary Cuba sponsored by the Harvard Latin American Association last night, Duncan Clement, who left his post in Cuba last January, said Castro is apparently more interested in the economic strength of state farms than he is in fulfilling the popular desire for small private plots...
Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
PICASSO'S PICASSOS, with text and photographs by David Douglas Duncan (270 pp.; Harper; $24.95). Art's most illustrious living grandee has permitted Photographer Duncan, a friend and worshiper, to photograph some 500 paintings, drawings and collages that he keeps in his villa on the French Riviera. From this treasure trove, Duncan photographed 103 in color. His text conveys a sense of intimacy, largely by the "I said to Picasso" method...