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...church sculptor of statuary in Manhattan's Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the huge bronze doors of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, and a marble Last Supper in Pittsburgh's East Liberty Presbyterian Church; of congestive heart failure; in his rural Sandy Hook, Conn. home. A spry, chain-smoking Episcopalian, Angel munched on gingerbread cookies as he fashioned his models in clay, contentedly resigned himself to the traditional anonymity of his art, thought modern art "merely a passing phase...
...Harlem, Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge told an audience that he "offered as a pledge" his promise that Dick Nixon's Cabinet would contain at least one Negro. Asked if he had discussed his speech with Nixon, Candidate Lodge managed to get Candidate Nixon off the hook by saying: "I am sure that Mr. Nixon will tell you that his Cabinet will be selected without regard to color or creed." Asked what he thought about Lodge's "pledge," Nixon said just that. As Lodge headed South on a campaign swing, he ran into angry questions from...
Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack, 51, who quit under fire in 1958, also got off the hook. Due to be tried again for conspiracy in rigging the FCC award of a TV channel in Miami (a first trial last year mired in a hung jury), Mack was examined by two court-appointed physicians last week. Their verdict: Mack is a bedridden alcoholic who has consumed from half a pint to a pint of whisky daily for years. The judge postponed the trial until such time as Mack can safely travel to a courtroom...
...time he had read Sidney Hook, James Burnham and Edmund Burke, he had decided that "to be a conservative today, you have to be a radical." This conclusion led to a $350-a-month assistant editorship on the Freeman magazine and another job with another right-wing magazine, the National Review, put out by his wealthy Yale friend, William (God and Man at Yale) Buckley. "The American tradition," Evans proclaimed in the Review, "is unequivocally conservative." Evans still serves the National Review as a contributing editor...
...courts often disregard incontrovertible medical evidence in granting damage claims, said Dr. Auster, citing specific cases. Sample: The scalp of a 45-year-old construction laborer, superficially grazed by a swinging hook on the end of a derrick cable, later developed a friable, fungating ulceration. X rays showed "extensive metastatic involvement"; cancer had spread to the head from a primary tumor in the workman's kidney. The cancer had obviously been spreading for months before the accident, and the scalp injury only served to call attention to it. Nevertheless, said Auster, the court granted a "substantial" award...