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Despite intense Administration pressure-particularly from Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, the President's prime pleader on Capitol Hill-Mills refuses to cooperate unless Johnson gives him an ironclad promise to cut domestic spending. Thus, if Lyndon Johnson is to get any economy-steadying measure through Congress, it may have to be at the price of some of his cherished Great Society programs. That is a hard decision for Johnson to make, but this time he will have to face up to it without delay. Harry Truman struck a chord of urgency in the nation when he asked...
...Ironclad's Shock Waves. "Seven Decades" has all the trimmings of a museum survey, including a 192-page catalogue. The show was picked by former Museum of Modern Art Curator Peter Selz, now director of the University of California's Berkeley art museum, from 151 private collections, 28 museums and 35 galleries. Instead of dividing modern art into isms, the exhibition weaves together art of different styles but similar dates. The insights available are therefore less preachy than head snapping...
...clash of contrasting styles, curious continuities emerge. Kinetic art, one of the latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration...
...Golden Age of sijo, says Translator Pai, began in 1456 and lasted for 150 years. Created by courtiers, many of these poems conceal political metaphors, but more and more often a personal note is sounded. Yi Sun-sin, the brilliant admiral who invented the ironclad and routed the Japanese fleet in 1592, described the loneliness of leadership...
...fashion's delight and men's despair, women and foundation garments have been inseparable for years. Feast or famine, thick or thin (mostly thick) they have clung to each other, lending ironclad support here (with a corset), whaleboned comfort there (with a waist cincher), out-and-out camouflage (with a wire-braided bustle or a foam-rubber bust) as far as the eye could see. Trouble was, the eye could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks...