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...Administration. He was also disingenuous when he complained that a naval officer, still unnamed, had been given a psychiatric test because he doubted the official account of the Aug. 4 attack. A psychiatric test is a standard, if seemingly excessive procedure in the U.S. military when a lower-ranking officer questions the statements of his superiors, and the Navy was not necessarily trying to muzzle its critic in this case...
Hominy Homily. Wallace demonstrated that his appeal does not stop with the blue-collar workers usually linked to his campaign. During his two-day tour of Pennsylvania's industrial heartland, his audience appeared to be largely lower-middle-class suburbanites. Also, a few well-dressed men sporting John Birch Society pins trailed him everywhere. After George finished a hominy-and-homily speech in his best backwoods drawl, one Pennsylvania supporter boomed: "Wallace is a new Messiah...
...last six years he has lost $65,000. "A man can open a Cadillac franchise for less money than newsprint and printing-labor cost," he wrote in his final issue. He added that he has also been losing his readership. "To the generation that succeeded mine, stories about the Lower East Side are like stories about the moon." Nor does he feel that wit is the useful weapon it once was. "The fight for civil rights has lost its romance," he wrote. "There is nothing funny about it any more...
What dealt a death blow to the mestizo tradition was the introduction of cheap chrome lithographs in the 19th century. At the same time, as silver became scarcer and more expensive, the lower classes increasingly turned to chinaware and crockery. Early mestizo art became a collector's item, disappeared into wealthy homes, or was guarded by churches and convents. Many objects in the Smithsonian exhibition are being loaned for the first time in centuries. After the Metropolitan's showing, the exhibition will be put on view in Lima, enabling Peruvians to rediscover the full range of their forefathers...
...Deterioration. The grumbling is even greater at California's 18 state colleges, which serve 190,000 students, compared with 95,000 at the university. Reagan asked for a $24 million slash in the colleges' proposed $249 million budget. Faced with an $18.5 million request for funds to lower professors' class loads and introduce various innovations, the Governor reduced the sum to a mere $459,000. Even State College Chancellor Glenn Dumke, a friend and politicalally of Reagan's, sees "symptoms of deterioration" in a rising faculty turnover (now at 10% a year) and a drop...