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...Dash Up. Getting ready for Salcantay, blond Marcus Broennimann, 28, a mining engineer, and leathery Felix Marx, 48, a foundry technician, bought 1,600 ft. of rope, feather-lined suits, three tents, sleeping bags, canned milk, chocolate, dried fruit and special concentrated food. At the mountain city of Huancayo, they loaded the gear and Broennimann's plump bride Susan into a pickup truck, and drove 530 miles to ancient Cusco...
They dropped cautiously downward next day, picking up Susan at base camp, and continuing until Broennimann's pain-racked feet would take him no farther. Marx rushed on for help; the Broennimanns huddled together four days and nights through a raging blizzard. Marcus feared that his feet might have to be cut off. But last week, carried to a hacienda at the foot of Salcantay, Broennimann was resting with the comforting assurance from a local doctor that amputation would not be necessary...
...painters have blossomed like bluebonnets in April. There are armies of Sunday painters, courses and scholarships for young artists in the schools and colleges, competitions and exhibits of their work at the museums. And there is quality as well as quantity. Says Dallas Businessman H. Stanley (Neiman-Marcus) Marcus, an active trustee of the Dallas Museum: "Ten years ago you would have found only five or six good painters in Texas. Today the woods are full of them...
...prove the point, Marcus and a group of fellow Texans sifted through the work of scores of artists, settled on samples from 53 of them for a show in Manhattan last week. The 53 were as varied as Texas itself. If there was any pattern, it was an apparent preference for the middle of the modern road. There were carefully drafted portraits, impressionistic canvases studded with sand and pebbles, meticulous still lifes, primitive religious scenes, paintings of mountains, barn dances, graveyards, oil wells, grasshoppers, madonnas and cathedrals. There was only a smattering of out & out abstraction...
...although France had a group of "Vacation Villages" around the country in which a 10-ft.-square cabin and three meals a day cost only $1.50 to $1.80. For Lone-Star Staters, Southern France made frantic preparations for La Semaine du Texas, an eight-day week, when imported Neiman-Marcus models in ten-gallon hats will roam the ranges of the Riviera...