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...once) a piece of museological bombast. The Japanese government has cooperated to the hilt, or tsuba, lending many works which are inaccessible even to the Japanese: these registered National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties have never left Japan before. They include such extraordinary objects as the sliding doors that Kanō Eitoku, aged 23, decorated with a design of a crane and a tree for the Jukō-in temple in Kyoto, circa 1566, a youthful achievement that invites comparison to the 25-year-old Masaccio's frescoes in Florence; one of the grandest specimens of calligraphic painting...
Also Martha Keys (D-Kan.), Robert Krueger (D-Tex.), Norman Mineta (D-Calif.), Gary A. Myers (R-Pa.), Larry L. Pressler (R-S.D.) and James D. Santini...
...brush of possible scandal has touched him only lightly and not very convincingly. After the 1970 campaign, Ford was accused of failing to report at least $11,500 in contributions made in 1969 by stockbrokers, bankers, conservative physicians and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Union of Kansas City, Kan. The checks were sent to Republican headquarters in Washington, which funneled the same amount back to two Ford reelection committees. But he defended his handling of his financial reports as "within the law," insisting that he did not know where the two committees received their money...
...Fellows were selected by a committee whose members were: Charles W. Bailey, editor of The Minneapolis Tribune; Richard Dudman, Washington Bureau Chief of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and, Do ph C. Simons Jr., president of the Lawrence, Kan., Daily Journal-World...
...singing," She looked mildly reproving. "You--sing!" She pointed at another boy. He looked nervously around the room and began to squeak with her singing. "The animals they came on they came on by twoseys twoseys..." The rest of the class joined in. "El-e-phants and Kan-ga-rooseys rooseys, children of the Lord...