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...head. The nation's Governors, after 58 national conferences ashore, had decided to try the unpath'd waters for No. 59. If last week's excursion between Manhattan and the Virgin Islands was devoid of accomplishment, it provided at least some echoes of the myriad laughter of the ocean waves that Aeschylus once heard...
...Massachusetts and a hero in New York," he said while we sifted through his myriad news clippings. He showed me letters of congratulations from John Lindsay and Jacob Javits after his successful challenge of New York's birth control laws, and his copies of letters from EMKO Pharmaceutical Company, manufacturer of a contraceptive foam, which showed he was their "Eastern clinical director...
...collection. As the throngs who jammed the show's opening days agreed, they indeed make a diverting display. Though Picasso may consider them doodles, they are clearly the doodles of genius. They reflect a fantastic fertility of invention, a sculptural technique to match every one of the myriad styles that Picasso has used in his 70-year painting career. As Sir Roland observed: "There could be 100 different sculptors in this exhibit. Yet all of them are named Picasso...
When the Viet Nam war finally ends, the history of the myriad unofficial attempts to end it will make a fascinating study in well-intentioned futility. Scores of private peacemakers have visited Hanoi-Italian ex-mayors and Mexican philosophers, French diplomats and Canadian clerics, professors and politicians-and practically all have gone away with tantalizingly vague reports of a brand new peace feeler. Scores of others have worked up their own formulas for peace and reacted bitterly when nobody seemed interested in buying them. Last week two more episodes in this strange saga of diplomatic dilettantism came to light...
...have once again exposed another American folly, that of the "numbers game." As one who works in research, I am aware that the myriad ways in which statistics can lie is directly proportional to the studies employing them. RICHARD J. HAMERSMA East Lansing, Mich...