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...event of a strike, it is thought that President Johnson will seek an 80-day injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act. Two years ago, when the last contract expired, President Kennedy asked for and was granted an injunction. After the injunction ran out he appointed Healy to a three-man Federal board to help end the strike...
...Goldwater. "I think the legislative branch has now spoken for the majority of the party-the majority of the American people-and while I didn't agree and I represented the minority, I stand with the majority, and just as Harry Truman did when he vetoed the Taft-Hartley Act: he later used it six times even though he didn't like...
...what it once was, and she does have her quirks, such as keeping a Manhattan mansion vacant and boarded up on a $6,000,000 plot at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street. No matter. She is Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John D., childless widow of Munitions Heir Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and in doughtier days she played hostess to the world's largest one-day dog show (4,456 entries in 1939) at her 500-acre estate in Madison, N.J. Today, she mothers 40-odd pedigreed German shepherds, retrievers, bloodhounds, beagles and a poodle, and kennel costs-nothing...
...mask of anguish in Marsden Hartley's The Lost Felice hides a different sort of grief. It is a symbol of womanhood mourning her drowned sons. The 20th century's passion for abstraction makes any representational figure seem accessibly human, but the grieving mother in Hartley's picture resembles a woman only in the way that an eerie echo resembles a voice. The intentional distortions of the 1939 picture ironically complete the cycle begun with the unintentional distortions of the 1670 picture. Perhaps fittingly, the decline of portraiture ends without a portrait...
There were two other withdrawals. A rather Hartleyesque still life, signed M. H., was blacklisted by a New York expert who knows Marsden Hartley. Then a bumbling Franz Kline was yanked because its owner could not be reached to defend...