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Your Feb. 29 article on Larry Fleischman's collection of American romantic painters says that John Sloan once attempted to proclaim a republic in Greenwich Village from Washington Square Arch. It was a student of Sloan's, one Gertrude Drick, termed...
...himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...
...years the Russians have lent the Chinese the somewhat unimpressive sum of $430 million, in deals signed only after months of hard bargaining. Currently the Chinese are shipping the Russians $250 million worth of goods a year more than they receive. Still, when the Chinese proclaim loudest of all that Communist strength now exceeds Western strength, the strength they are bragging about is primarily Russia's-Sputniks and missiles...
...General de Gaulle expects every general to do his duty." With icy defiance, a cabal of five generals and eleven field officers told him flatly that 1) the army would not fire on Frenchmen, 2) De Gaulle had no choice but to renounce his offer of self-determination and proclaim unequivocally that he would keep Algeria French. Grey-faced, Debré returned to Paris unnerved; worse yet, the furtiveness of his trip-his arrival in Algiers was not made public until after he had left-made it plain that De Gaulle's government doubted its ability to suppress...
This, reported Pravda, brought "very stormy applause." What better way to proclaim peaceful intentions on the eve of Khrushchev's trip to India, Burma and Indonesia? The basic motive of the troop cut, cried Khrushchev, "is a lofty humanitarian ideal inherent in our forward-looking concept of life, of a Socialist society...