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GALLERY OF MODERN ART-Columbus Circle at 59th. The elegant white marble museum opens with the pallid permanent collection of Museum Founder Huntington Hartford and a large exhibition (300 works) of the late Russian-born painter, Pavel Tchelitchew (see ART). Through April...
...National Security Council and participated regularly in Cabinet sessions. He was appointed Special Assistant for Arms Control, (or, as Eisenhower called him, "Secretary of Peace"). In this last capacity, he negotiated seriously with the Soviets in the summer of 1957, proposing steps that make today's test ban look pallid. In this effort he was frustrated by Dulles...
...Burgess' newest novel, a pallid British antique dealer has to go to Leningrad to learn that he has always been a latent homosexual. On top of this, his, sulky American wife turns out to be an incipient lesbian...
...contrast to this broad program, past Conservative policies seem a bit pallid. Christine Keeler is a symbol of Tory difficulties that are more than skin deep. After an impressive electoral mandate in 1959, Macmillan's government immediately began to stumble. His policy of independence for British possessions in Africa alienated rightist members of his party. Then the U-2 debacle obliterated his hopes for a British inspired Soviet-American detente, and the election of John F. Kennedy encouraged the press to portray him as the walrus-like vestige of a less-enlightened age. Finally, within the last year, the Tories...
...between the haughty old-rich and the pushy new-rich. He is a gifted graphic artist in whose visions the physical and the metaphysical converge-late in the film, the music room, the locus of disaster in the zamindar's life, is suddenly unshuttered and exhales into the pallid twilight a black flock of bats that flutter soundlessly above the old man's head like powers of darkness portending his death...