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What he and other Negro integrationists saw was a strong backlash by anti-bussing whites. Last week the whites got a chance to express their feelings when a record 50% of Denver's registered voters turned out for the school-board election. At issue were two six-year seats on the seven-member board. In seeking those seats, Lawyer James C. Perrill and Frank K. Southworth, a real estate man, ran primarily "against forced bussing and for neighborhood schools." They won by a landslide, switching the board majority to 4 to 3 against integration...
...steelworker, Humphrey followed his father into the mills, then quit to study art at Youngstown University and in Paris before coming to New York. A cheery sort, who refuses to wear a beard because it is "too establishment among artists," he began with representational painting. Then, he explains, "I got to a point where objects didn't mean anything any more." Humphrey's canvases of 1964 and 1965 were cold-gray with narrow colored borders. Slowly softer and more vibrant colors began to glow in his works. Humphrey says that the added warmth of his latest pictures probably...
Died. Daniel Fitzpatrick, 78, dean of U.S. editorial cartoonists, whose biting, broad-stroked drawings in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other papers won him two Pulitzer Prizes; in St. Louis. "I made an awful lot of people plenty goddam mad at me," Fitzpatrick once said-but then he got mad at an awful lot of people. In 1926, he won his first Pulitzer for a drawing of a mountain of paper looming over two tiny tablets titled "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today"; his second came in 1955, when he showed Uncle Sam marching into...
Last week Chrysler Corp. got a toehold by making a "general agreement" with Mitsubishi, Japan's second largest industrial corporation, to set up a joint company in which Chrysler would have a 35% share. The government in Tokyo will have to approve the deal, and is not likely to be quick about it. The two firms hope to collaborate on some research, then move on to marketing each other's cars in Japan and the U.S. Later, they might join in assembling Chrysler cars in Japan. Ford also started negotiating in earnest last week with Japan...
Meanwhile Harvard had made nine runs. In the first inning Whittemore hit safely, reached second on an error by Altman, who made a wild throw of Cook's hit, and got third on a passed ball. Dickinson fouled out to Payne. Scannell hit to short, who threw Whittemore out at the plate; then Wiggin flied out to shortstop...