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...only a question of time before their art would wind up on the floor. Last week Chicago's Art Institute was offering a look at that brightly decked future: 13 limited-edition (ten copies of each) rugs designed by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Joán Miró, Jean Lurçat, the late Fernand Léger and U.S. Mobile Sculptor Alexander Calder...
...said Stalin to the 17th Party Congress (1934)." And so on for a page of valuable documentation of George Orwell's porcine commissar whose classic formula was: "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." Similarly, Author Hodgkinson has fun with the word peace (mir) and the bellicose roarings of those who advocate it, including the Czech miner who promised to "batter the warmongers to death with peace...
...state trial, by a vote of 45-8 found ex-President José Ramón Guizado, 55, guilty as an accomplice in the assassination of his predecessor, José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón. The conviction was largely based on a confession by erratic Lawyer Rubén Miró, who admitted machine-gunning Remón at Panama's race track (TIME, Jan. 24), and implicated Guizado, Remón's Vice President. Panama will next prosecute Miró, and try to prove in the ordinary courts that he was the assassin...
...turn promised to carry on Remón's policies. The first public laugh of the troubled new year was provided by haughty ex-President Arnulfo Arias (no kin to Dickie), who as Remón's ancient enemy was jailed after the killing but freed upon Miró's confession. Arnulfo had been confined, he complained, in a cell reserved for "official prostitutes." Said he, "I didn't have the energy to clear up just what was meant by 'official...
...accused Presidents. They argued that the alleged crime took place when Guizado was still Vice President; the Supreme Court, ruling that the accusation against Guizado was made while he was President, rejected jurisdiction. The Assembly named a five-man committee to gather evidence and prepare an arraignment. (Miró will be tried in the courts...