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...good enough dancer himself to work out with Martha Graham's company, produced the performance, recruiting dancers from Graham, the New York City Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. He has even donned a leotard himself to prance through the sanctuary in his own choreographed version of Jacob's ladder (Genesis 28: 12: "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven...
...Amazed." These are the qualifications questioned since Kennedy's death. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating proposed a constitutional amendment providing for the election of two Vice Presidents to "strengthen the line of succession." New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits and Virginia's Democratic Representative J. Vaughan Gary proposed that the Congress be empowered to elect a new Vice President. Indiana's Democratic Senator Birch Bayh suggested that the President himself nominate a new Vice President, his choice subject to approval by Congress. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "Whatever John McCormack...
...conviction of more than a dozen top Reds between 1948 and 1951; following surgery for an abdominal tumor; in New Haven, Conn. A frumpy New Englander who studied socialism at Vassar ('30), Elizabeth Bentley joined :he Communist Party in 1935 when she fell in love with Soviet Spy Jacob Golos, became an underground courier Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with information that implicated Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry Dexter White (he was never indicted) and helped...
PAINTING AND DRAWING THE NUDE, PART I: THE MALE-Banfer, 23 East 67th. Adam as depicted by 23 U.S. artists. Besides an assortment of mundane classical studies there are some forceful skinscapes: Jacob Landau's unbound Prometheus agonized by fire and trance; Paul Cadmus' eerie, restive painting, The Shower; John Fenton's intimations of mortality in Death of a Bullfighter. Through...
...Fulbright's apologetic tone was symptomatic of the fact that even foreign aid's best congressional friends realize that the program, in its present form, is doomed. "The reason why the program is in trouble-and it is in trouble," declared New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, "is that neither this Administration nor the previous Administration understood what the private enterprise system is capable of contributing, and has failed to use it." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse charged that U.S. taxpayers were being "rooked by our worldwide-flung giveaway foreign aid program...