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...embarrassed over its ties with business. "There is nothing wicked about being the 'party of business,' " he wrote in Order of Battie: A Republican's Call to Reason, a book he is now updating for distribution to some 20,000 key politicians and editors as a kind of campaign manifesto. "And if 'business' is understood as being something infinitely more than a collection of managers, including also investors, workers, consumers and farmers ?all of whom draw sustenance from the function of business?there is nothing narrow-minded about it. 'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect...
...wing of the Unified Buddhist Church, opened the week by calling for passive resistance instead of rioting. Then, as if to convince the U.S. that his campaign was directed not at the war effort but only against the oppressions of Ky (himself a Buddhist), Tarn Chau issued a hawkish manifesto opposing any peace conference as a "surrender to the Viet Cong." He also paid a surprise visit to American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
Died. Amedee Ozenfant, 80, French painter and art theorist who, along with Le Corbusier, issued a 1918 manifesto in Paris denouncing cubism, as then practiced, for being too preoccupied with geometry, instead urged artists to return to the real world, a concept he called "purism"; of a strangulated hernia; in Cannes...
...Goldberg, "will, in the long run, be less reliable than a system which depends on extrinsic evidence independently secured through skillful investigation. If the exercise of constitutional rights will thwart the effectiveness of a system of law enforcement, then there is something very wrong with that system." Despite this manifesto, the basic Escobedo rule was actually limited. "We hold only," said the opinion, "that when the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory -when its focus is on the accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession-our adversary system begins to operate, and, under the circumstances here, the accused...
...experiment that renounced many of the canons of sculpture up to that date. What it amounted to, as Gabo later wrote in his Realistic Manifesto, published in 1920 after his return to Moscow, was a rejection of sculpture as mass in favor of an expression of "continuous depth," as more befitting what was soon to become the space age. "With the plumb line in our hand, eyes as precise as a ruler, in a spirit as taut as a compass," he affirmed "kinetic rhythms as the basic forms of our perception of real time...