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...Caracas resembles a collage of advertising posters. At night its plazas glitter and bustle with popular rallies. Next Sunday is election day, and Venezuelans are enjoying the campaign with the enthusiasm of a people liberated from dictatorial rule only ten years ago. No fewer than 28 parties are competing for congressional seats, and have festooned the capital with tigers, roosters, flying saucers and other party symbols. In one square, the chief opposition presidential candidate, Rafael Caldera, head of the Social Christian Party, has a huge calendar ticking off the days until el cambio, "the change." In riposte, the governing Acci...
Despite the Madison Avenue glitter surrounding THE GAME, Yale coach Carmen Cozza plays his role reluctantly, "Football games are played on Saturday," he insists. "Whatver happens during the week just doesn't matter...
...ceaseless patrolling and ambushing continued last week, although there was only limited contact. In Paris and Washington, wary allied and North Vietnamese diplomats maintained their watch on the peace talks. But Saigon, a subdued shadow of its old hedonistic self since the Tet offensive of February, was beginning to glitter once more...
Amidst the usual glitter, most of Detroit's 1969 model cars have already been unveiled. Now the price tags are coming along. The first to present its new cars, Chrysler Corp., last week was also the first to present the bill that goes with them. In its fourth hike in three years, the company announced that, on the average, its 1969 cars will cost $89 more...
...chandelier. These perilous playthings metamorphosed themselves in his mind into icons against the savage man-made destruction outside. Today Lucas Samaras continues to craft them into prickly, disturbing drawings and assemblages. They suggest that pain and anguish lurk in the commonest household object, yet at the same time they glitter with a prideful...