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During his knockabout years, Westermann acquired an irreverent imagination and a keen respect for craftsmanship. The Last Ray of Hope is a highly polished pair of workman's boots (he spent two weeks polishing them) set on a platform of linoleum foil and enclosed in an immaculately machined glass box. They suggest a display in the front window of some country store with a cracker barrel and iron stove in side. The title apparently has some obscure relevance in Westermann's mind to his reverence for honest workmanship. Says Westermann: "I think they are beautiful. They...
...began beaming his Sunday night broadcasts to BBC listeners over the globe. Unless you have a good short wave radio, it's impossible to listen to them in the U.S. Which is a pity for, as this collection of 42 such "Letters from America" convincingly demonstrates, Cooke has a keen eye for America and the variety of her people...
Ticket splitting this year seemed to become the national norm. Filling offices below the national ticket, voters in state after state indicated a keen sense of discrimination and a resistance to predictable patterns. In the House elections, incumbents seemed to enjoy the edge. In several Senate and gubernatorial contests, the voters reached for new personalities. In New York, Humphrey gained an easy victory, while the Republicans ended Democratic control of the state assembly...
...GENERAL, cross country runners are a self-sufficient lot. There is no necessity that they work together during a contest, at least not in the same way that a shortstop and second baseman must. And there is always an undercurrent of keen competition among team members. Coach McCurdy keeps detailed records of workout times and meet performances, and most runners are experts at memorizing these statistics and comparing them in a good-natured fashion...
...little more than wag a finger. Earlier this year, President Johnson succeeded in rolling back Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s price boosts of almost 5% with threats of diverting Government steel orders. The Administration has no such leverage over the car industry. Instead, it must count on the keen competition among automakers themselves to do the job of keeping prices down...