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...struck the political spark is balding Aime Forand, 64. One of 16 children born to a New England loom fixer, Aime Forand quit grade school to help support his blind father ("I know what it means to scratch"), went on to become a Democratic Congressman from Rhode Island. For 22 unspectacular years, Forand was barely noticed in Washington-until he suggested that the social security system be expanded to cover health insurance for the aged. Forand's plan: boost social security taxes ¼% for employees and ¼% for employers, use the funds to finance surgical costs...
...same period. New Mexico's prolific Paul Horgan runs into somewhat similar trouble with his fictional hero. Matthew Hazard, U.S. cavalry officer, is coltishly appealing, brave, leathery, and a West Pointer. By page 100 he is out n Arizona Territory looking for hostile Apaches, and he should loom larger than life, but somehow he looks smaller. The real heroes are again the landscape and the history that fills...
...ballet. Choreographer Balanchine tells the story of how the rug was woven somewhere in the desert: a swarm of ballerinas, supported by male dancers passing for nomad tribesmen, weave an elaborate cat's cradle of streamers, their movements as intricate and precise as the shuttling of a power loom. Then the story moves on to the Persian court, and the rest of the ballet is merely a "court entertainment,'' a kind of Balanchine variety show. In a swirl of color, foreign visitors to the court strut the stage dressed in everything from the gaudily feathered headdress...
...acre campus borders two auto-choked expressways and the city's two finest museums. Its buildings include Charles Addamsish mansions that once housed Detroit's wealthy. Its students fill the classrooms 14 hours a day, and some of them have to meet in a garage. Yet everywhere loom the cool creations of famed Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki (TIME, Nov. 17, 1958), who is turning ugly Wayne into a graceful "superblock" of imaginative buildings...
...missile gap" will loom bigger in November if Democrats can succeed in convincing the voters that the U.S. is also lagging in the space race, in rate of economic growth, and in scientific-technical education-and that all the lags together add up to a danger that the U.S. may slip to "second best" in the world. Such a composite "secondbest" issue is already shaping up among pundits. But it is a sticky issue for a Democratic candidate to grab hold of, involving a risk that it might lose votes by seeming unpatriotic...