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...appetite-and pocketbook-had grown large. He cast an envious eye on a big bunch of Russells, then housed cozily in a fine old Great Falls, Mont., saloon called The Mint. The people of Montana belatedly tried to raise the money to outbid Carter and keep the artist's work in the state he adopted, but Carter won. He hung his acquisitions in his club, at the newspaper, in the Fort Worth library, the airport terminal. His will stipulated that they should eventually have their own museum...
Bravo for your excellent coverage of the latest attempt by the Kennedy family to try and outbid the State Department. I am sure that many readers of TIME will echo Senator Hugh Scott's words concerning this matter of exposing the immature, hot-tempered, . glory-seeking actions of the junior Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...University (6,507 students in ten schools and colleges) to top academic rank by anyone's standards. The trouble is that the job gets tougher all the time. One of the quirks of U.S. integration is that as discrimination wanes on white campuses, the wealthy Ivy League schools outbid Howard for able Negro students, and Howard gets increasing numbers of Southern applicants with poor preparation...
...week's most significant story in Foreign News came in scattered pieces. Gaitskell, Mollet and Ollenhauer-the big names of Europe's three major socialist parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader...
...next round of allotments will certainly become a grand farce. One president of a small college threatened last week to ask for $.5 million in order to get what he needs. Realizing that the funds it receives will be mathematically proportionate to its request, each college will attempt to outbid the others. The request system will cease to be merely unfair; it will become absurd...