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...Michael S. Dukakis's reputed Presidential ambitions have turned the normally glamorless office of lieutenant governor into a prize sought heatedly by three candidates...
...With its glamorless name and ungraceful looks, the Coot should be about as seductive to car buyers as two steel tubs hung between four large tires -which is just what it is. It is also the smartest thing on wheels to a growing corps of Coot fanciers. They drive it through mud, up mountains, across lakes and into woods, all the places conventional vehicles cannot roll. They use it to hunt, fish, mend fences, find stranded sheep and haul fertilizer. The vehicle is also put into service by federal forest rangers and by a dozen law enforcement agencies for search...
...covered the period between 1914 and 1941. This cross-section of U.S. printmaking showed that: 1) in variety and quality of work, U.S. printmakers were leading the world; 2) since World War I, U.S. print-makers had turned gradually from Romantic Venetian canals and Gothic cathedrals to forthright, glamorless, often satirical comments on the U.S. scene...
...dancing was as severe, economical and prim as her New England ancestry, as unintoxicating as ice water, but something new. Today, though it does not compete with the box office of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Martha Graham's glamorless dance counts a big audience from coast to coast, a huge following of high-minded, earnest, mop-haired disciples who treat their art as if it were the successor of the Greek or Elizabethan drama...
Taft. Ohio's solid, glamorless Robert A. Taft, No. 1 Republican Bumbler, beetled off around the U. S. putting his foot in his mouth. Last week in St. Louis, Republicans from eight States told him of a daily-spreading Midwest sentiment for more substantial aid to the Allies. G. O. P. leaders, from Alf Landon down, had warned him to go slow on Isolationism; local chiefs had told him how delighted they were at his continued open-mindedness on foreign affairs. That night Senator Taft spoke, made his strongest appeal yet for strict U. S. neutrality, financial as well...