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What's worse, the Gallery's insurgent director, a total newcomer from, God forbid, Reed College, obviously cloisters the most evil of all intentions within his crafty mind. No one could doubt that he is dedicated to the utter humiliation of the Club. For he is embarking upon an experiment which is altogether too daring, too wild, too foolish, to merit the least glimmer of hope for success--he is exhibiting representational, objective...
Christmastime lovers nuzzle under plastic mistletoe, and brides are pelted with polyethylene orange blossoms. "It's got so that a girl only gets real flowers for her first corsage and at her funeral," says a Wichita florist. Some cemeteries forbid the use of fake flowers, not so much for reasons of taste as because they make it difficult to cut the grass. Other cemeteries have given in, allow plastic wreaths and sprays...
Some, he found, do not adequately report either income or expenditures of local chapters. Some allow their locals to join community-chest or united-fund drives, while others forbid it. About 100 national and regional agencies overlap with 2,200 united-fund drives that divvy up the take among 28,500 agencies...
...spelling out Pakistan's groping toward democracy and its dependence on U.S. financial aid, Ayub threatened: "We are pressing against you today as friends. If we make good, I think you will in some fashion get [your money] back. If we do not make good and if, heaven forbid, we go under Communism, then we shall still press against you-but not as friends." The "affluent" U.S., said Ayub, really has no choice: "You have to give it to us because so much is involved." It was plain talk-a blunt attempt to intervene in what is essentially...
...dangerous precedent because it will encourage other countries, both large and small, to do the same thing. Castro is blackmailing the mighty U.S. and humiliating us before the rest of the world. Instead of approving such a deal, our Government should denounce it for what it is and forbid any private citizen or committee of private citizens to have anything to do with...