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After four years in Europe on three different fellowships, the young American composer Benjamin Lees was fast approaching the day when he would become a public trust. He labored quietly over his compositions, as first Guggenheim, then Copley, then Fulbright supported him. He wrote a symphony and some chamber music, but the peak of his abstraction came in 1958, when he spent eight months writing a violin concerto. Lacking a virtuoso to play it, he stuffed it away in a steamer trunk...
...architects or at least co-designers of the Atlantic alliance, U.S. policymakers were plunged into gloom. "Most unfortunate," said the State Department. In Congress there were revived mutterings about the inefficacy of foreign aid and the ingratitude of allies. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright talked of the "temporary aberration" of the man. A nation that had hoped to be in a position to profit from the Communist split between Russia and Red China found a deep crevice opening at its feet. And though the Kennedy Administration did not speak of an "agonizing reappraisal" of its relations with a recalcitrant France...
Concentrating on East Germany and Soviet-German relations, Croan will be made assistant professor of Government and research fellow in the Russian Research Center. He has studied in Germany as a Fulbright Fellow in 1953-1954 and as a Ford Foundation Fellow...
...Bontecou, a blonde loft-waif of Lower Manhattan, used to do terra-cotta animals, turned to something called "soot drawings" while on a Fulbright in Rome, five years ago started making little boxes of metal rods with canvas sides stitched on with copper wire, treated with sizing for tautness, scorched with a blowtorch for blackness. From there, the elaborate wall structures grew. "I wanted to get sculpture off the floor-sculptures standing on the floor, they don't have anything to do with anything; they're so heavy and, well, I just wanted to get them...
...denounced it as "radical," "ridiculous," "morally wrong," and "straight from a dreamland of fiscal fantasy." Missouri's Democratic Representative Clarence Cannon, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said the budget was "monstrous," predicted that his committee would "find places to cut it substantially." Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright said the budget "seems extraordinarily high." And New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson pronounced the budget "discouraging...