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...site of a national political convention, San Francisco offers many advantages-which may be why the Republican Party has chosen it twice in eight years. Its precipitous hills produce women long and firm of limb. It abounds with good hotels, fine restaurants and postcard vistas. It also fields three dailies favorably disposed to the Republican cause: Hearst's morning Examiner, the morning Chronicle, and Hearst's evening News Call Bulletin. To this triad must be added a fourth: the Oakland Tribune, published just across the bay by former Republican U.S. Senator William Knowland. But if delegates to next...
...Anatoly Nikitch, 46, who will show at the Venice Biennale this season. His seven still lifes are perfectly balanced compositions and painters' paintings; in one, provocatively, a postcard by France's Bernard Buffet is visible stuck to a background wall. Pavel Nikonov's somber Still Life with Pestle and Mortar, with its Braque-like greys and browns, and Aleksei Tyapushkin's still life with flowers on table are also painterly achievements. Sculptor Ernest Neizvestny, who was personally scolded by Khrushchev for his modernism, draws dynamic nudes...
Candy is as far from Swift as a French postcard is from Hogarth. Its heroine, Candy Christian, is that supposedly fictitious character-the girl who was ruined by a book. A glad-glanded college girl, she believes everything she reads or is told, and thus her pretty head is filled with every cliche in the current liberal establishment of ideas. Unhappily there is just one thing she can do for her country, for colonial freedom, for Zen enlightenment, for Freud, for minorities, and this she certainly does. For example, she takes the most improbable of her lovers, a cretin with...
...post office employee came out with two huge mail bags and waited as demonstration leaders held the mailbox open for the letters to the President. An elderly woman stepped out of line and wrote a postcard as her friend dictated from hers: "Dear President Johnson, Support federal force in Mississippi. Congratulations on your stand thus...
...jury that she had seen Ruby throw a man downstairs, pounce on him and beat his head repeatedly on the sidewalk, then rise in bewilderment and say, "Did I do this? Did I do this?" George Senator, 50, Ruby's bachelor roommate who identified himself as "a former postcard salesman," recalled that Ruby woke him at 3 a.m. the day after Kennedy was shot, seemed "very, very solemn, very moody." Dallas Rabbi Hillel Silverman, who had known Ruby for ten years, recalled that one day last year Ruby suddenly appeared on Silverman's front yard with half...