Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Edward Boehm, 56, wildlife sculptor whose exquisite porcelain birds grace museums and galleries around the world, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, to which he donated a 90-piece collection worth $104,000; in Trenton...
...confusion began three days later, when Finch unexpectedly announced that the districts could have a 60-day "grace" period: if they would integrate their schools within the 60 days, they would get all their Federal funds back--including those withheld during the grace period. Finch's move was unprecedented; Democratic cut-off decisions had never allowed the school districts to recover their lost funds retroactively...
FINCH has concocted a number of plausible arguments for the grace period, the most convincing being his "urgent desire" to keep the Southern schools open while they work out desegregation plans. But Finch's obvious lack of enthusiasm for the 60-day scheme makes it clear that the idea was not his. Pressure was apparently applied, and the source of that pressure offers a clue to Nixon's role in the conflict...
...ever since he delivered the Southern vote at the convention and in the election, didn't waste time with any Whittenesque theatrics. Knowing where the power was, he sent a series of messages to Nixon expressing his "concern" over Finch's cut-off. After Finch gave in to the grace-period plan, Thurmond said that he thought it was wise: "We need to take more time in these things...
...prints as "unfit for public exhibition," has received phone calls complaining, in effect, that Picasso is a dirty old man and demanding that the exhibit be removed. But what matters about "347 Gravures" is that the old master proves he can still invest a female nude with classic grace by means of a single magical line. He doesn't do it every time-but then he never...