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...fact that America is neither omnipotent nor universally loved, and a confusion about just what the U.S. role in the world henceforth should be. On Capitol Hill, Administration operatives were still fighting last week to revive the foreign aid bill, which had been killed by the Senate. They achieved partial success when Congress agreed to extend aid until Dec. 8. But then the Senate upset the White House all over again when the Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment requiring the withdrawal of 60,000 troops from Europe by next June. That would reduce U.S. forces in NATO by one-fifth...
Perhaps no good artist is wholly forgotten, but partial eclipses happen all the time. One shadowed Vuillard, who, between his birth in 1868 and his death in 1940, became one of the most respected names in French art. The respect, however, turned into the kind that tails off into a cough and a pause. No doubt Vuillard's own modesty contributed to the situation; thus between 1912 and 1938, the years when the big reputations were consolidating, he never had a one-man show in Paris. So it happened that Vuillard was tagged as a "minor master" and left...
Neither Democrats nor Republicans could take any particular pleasure from the election returns. In Kentucky, the only state where the two major parties were battling for the governorship, the Democratic candidate, Lieutenant Governor Wendell Ford, was the winner. The race was a partial test of President Nixon's economic policies since Ford campaigned against them. But the lone congressional contest also served as a token test. H. John Heinz III, heir to the ketchup and pickle fortune, gingerly defended Nixon's wage-price freeze in his campaign and won a 2-to-l victory. Democratic Mayor Joseph Alioto...
...Feild would like to think his watercolors romantic. His exhibit represents an evocation of a mood and feeling for a region he first visited in childhood and to which he is strongly attached. Nostalgic experience, the longing "to paint myself back into a dreamworld," is a partial motivation. This accounts for an occasional sentimentality in certain pictures. (Appropriate sentiment, Mr. Feild believes, and not in self-defense, is "terribly rare...
Bureau policies are partial to the interests of big irrigators like the Southern Pacific Company, the report charged, in that Bureau projects, which raise substantially the value of farmland, are centered on the lands of the powerful. By contrast. Indian lands are neglected and Indian water is often diverted for the use of non-Indian farmers and city-dwellers, the report said...