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...MARTY FLECKMAN, 23, 5 ft. 10 in., 175 Ibs. Last June, as an unheralded amateur, Fleckman led the U.S. Open after 54 holes-only to collapse with a last-round 80. A health-food enthusiast (honey, brewers' yeast, wheat germ), Fleckman borrowed $6,500 to finance his fling at the tour and won the first pro tournament he entered: last year's Cajun Classic. Some pros insist that Fleckman does not follow through properly, and flips the club during his downswing. But he is making that flawed swing...
...Rauschenberg poster at Manhattan's Whitney Museum advertises the artist himself. Entitled Autobiography, the gaudy billboard includes a life history in telegraphese, his horoscope, and a skeletal portrait of himself composed from 13 X rays. With the backing of a group headed by Poster-Art Enthusiast Marion Javits, wife of the U.S. Senator, 2,000 copies of the work will be reproduced and sold to hard-core Rauschenberg admirers at $150 a throw...
...this device to magnify the fact that the viewer is being confronted with another human being," explains Leslie. A slight, loquacious, onetime physical-culture enthusiast from The Bronx, he abandoned a successful career as an abstractionist in 1960 because "modern art had, in a sense, killed figure painting. Painting the figure had become the most challenging subject an artist could undertake...
...construction in garages and basement workshops. "I know of one man," says Poberezny, "who built a plane in the cabin of a Great Lakes ore ship." Working in his spare time, with a good set of commercial plans (most popular: the Pitts Special biplane), a handy do-it-yourself enthusiast can turn out an airworthy, 100-m.p.h. plane for as little...
Another worker, Miss Madeline Burns, explained tha "she's defending the right to private property, my right to my own home." But another enthusiast proclaimed, "Frankly I supported her because she'll get rid of the niggers. A lot of people in Boston secretly think the way she does--but didn't have the guts to come...