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...experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Hostess Gwen Cafritz purrs modestly: "With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save Western civilization." And Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, had her motto for a lively party embroidered on a sofa pillow: "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here...
...tight race. In less than two years, redhaired, blue-eyed Jack Gilligan, who never really stopped campaigning, has earned a reputation to match the motto on his placard: "The Congressman who gets things done." He opened a local office, started a newsletter-both innovations in the district -and even put out reports in Braille. He arranged free junkets to Washington for high school students and brought delegations of Washington officials to Cincinnati to discuss local problems with community leaders...
...State. For the past two weeks, the delegates have been seeking a solution that would satisfy both Gowon and the regions. Plans to split the country into as many as a dozen regions were being aired. "One man, one state," gloomed a conference member. "That seems to be our motto." It did indeed: Northern delegates, some of whom had to be restrained from dashing home during the rioting, were dead set against the notion of splitting the North into several separate regions; Easterners were threatening to secede from the nation, and arguing among themselves over internal secession from the region...
...Bangkok Post, has long sought one crowning jewel: a major London daily. The Times of London, a paper of rich tradition but modest circulation (286,000), has long needed one sterling resource: money. Last week the British press lord got together with the Establishment's most authoritative daily (motto: "For Top People") in a deal that brings new prestige to 72-year-old Thomson and fresh power to the 181 -year-old Times...
...more mixed up the better seems to be the motto in art these days. Sculptors are adding paint to metals and incorporating everything from old divans to truncated taxis as props for their pop works; painters are bulging their canvases out into space to challenge the sculptors. Now the mixed-media trend seems to have struck the world of prints. Scorned are such traditional tools as the lithographer's stone and crayon, the engraver's burin, the woodcutter's gouge; in are Plexiglas and acetate, molded plastic and all kinds of electric lighting...