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...Sept. 15 of last year the people in the Palestine Information Office in Washington received a letter from the State Department announcing that "the Department has designated the Palestine Information Office as a 'foreign mission.' " Their lucky day? Not exactly. The letter continued, as if daring Joseph Heller (Catch-22) to top this one: "Pursuant to the Designation of the Palestine Information Office as a Foreign Mission, the Department of State has determined that the Palestine Information Office shall be required to cease operation as a foreign mission." Then the Government ordered the office's electricity cut off, its phone...
...Then he was in the midst of "figuring out the secrets of how to do this -- at first I didn't have the vaguest idea. But as I met each new challenge, it became a narcotic." The effort has paid off handsomely: recently, at Manhattan's prestigious Heller Gallery, collectors were snapping up his crystal sculptures for as much...
...space, released from their glass prison. The form, which Stankard calls a cloistered botanical, brought his work to the attention of collectors of contemporary glass. "He has broken away from the traditional paperweight style, and is now accepted as a very serious artist around the world," says Douglas Heller, director of the Heller Gallery...
...Tigers are led by sophomores Suzanne Huffman and Dana Wheeler, freshmen Kelly Sather and Loren Montgomery, and senior setter Ruth Heller...
...Heller, however, was no doctrinaire expansionist. After leaving office in 1964, he saw clearly the danger of resurgent inflation in an overheated economy and tried vainly to persuade Lyndon Johnson to raise taxes again to pay for the Viet Nam War. Though he lost that round -- and had to watch while war-driven inflation soared -- he retained his influence as a professor, an inveterate witness before congressional committees and a counselor to Democratic politicians...