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College News Conference (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). An election post-mortem with Senators Wayne Morse and George Aiken...
...Poor organization and failure to run stronger candidates" beat his party in many areas in 1958, wrote Vice President Richard Nixon in a post-mortem after the Democrats won the House of Representatives 283 to 158. Since then Nixon & Co. have been beating the bushes to recruit articulate, attractive young Republicans to run for Congress. Last week 167 of 1960's crop of new Republican candidates paid their way to the capital, where the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee picked up hotel and food tabs and put on a two-day cram course on how to influence voters...
...Post Mortem...
...another striking difference was evident. Recently arrived Yemenites who died of TB, or were killed in accidents amid the unfamiliar vehicular traffic, proved on post-mortem examination to have virtually no atherosclerotic heart disease. Yet this was the greatest killer among the Ashkenazim, Jews who had migrated to Israel from middle and northern Europe...
Although no amount of post-mortem analysis can altogether remove the aura of a grand failure from Carles's work, it now appears, in retrospect, that Carles stood so alone because he was so far ahead. As a young man he had gone to Paris, fallen under the spell first of Edouard Manet and then the postimpressionists, sipped coffee with Matisse and Brancusi. Back home in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1917 to 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Carles slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors...