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Thieu meanwhile was quietly lining up support in the Senate and the National Salvation Front for a change of stance that would enable his country to join the talks. Ambassador Bui Diem was recalled from Washington for consultations with the President. From Paris, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam reported that arrangements for the arrival of a South Vietnamese delegation had been completed: housing had been secured and cars had been hired. Thieu also spent time working on the composition of a delegation, amid insistent demands from Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that he head the negotiating group...
Take-Off Pants. The costume look-or the "rich hippie" look, as it is sometimes known-is not just the prerogative of the young. Socialite-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, 44, is one devotee. Greeting guests at her recent one-woman show in Washington, D.C., she wore silver lamé harem pants, matching vest, rhinestone earrings,'bracelets, a brooch and six gold rings. "My dressing is a natural extension of my art," says Gloria, who specializes in collages...
...poet, Burgess also warns, is a dangerous man-one of life's great survivors. In the wildly freewheeling last half of the novel, Enderby returns to claim his old poet's self. On the lam from all his would-be reformers-including the police-he ends up in the layatories of Morocco, blissfully scribbling a long poem based on Hamlet. Enderby may not have the gift for living, but, concludes Burgess, "poets, even minor ones, donate the right words" that enable others to live. On this claim-that they are saviors who cannot save themselves-Burgess rests...
Bergman caught the collecting bug in 1954, soon met Surrealist Wilfredo Lam and through him acquired an interest in surrealism. He also acquired Roberto Malta's Onyx of Electro, a key exhibit in the survey of Dada and surrealism opening this week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...railroad water tank. The decline of the railroad, the rise of the mechanized farm, and the welfare state have just about finished off the career hobo as a mass phenomenon. But he still flourishes in the national mythology. And his descendants live, says Allsop, in the hippies "on the lam from the daily grind," in the restless American who prizes and praises his ultimate freedom of choice, "the right to move on to new ground if the old is intolerable, infertile, or just too stalely famili...