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...original." exclaimed Picasso triumphantly. In fact, Picasso had acquired the site his predecessor and mentor made famous with a number of late and exemplary canvases. The event itself is striking, the stuff of which Maupassant stories are made. The virtuoso pupil becomes lord of the very scene where his master of old perished neglected and alone. The act embodies a particularly exalted form of homage; it also represents an exotic sort of justice, ironic and bitter...
Governor Almond, who had bowed with courage and dignity in accepting token integration as inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9), staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...
...Pupil Derk Kliphuis, 40, a chauffeur for 22 years, put on his swimming trunks and waded into an Amsterdam pool for his lessons in an aluminum mock-up car. "I was frightened when we drove into the water," he said afterward. "The teacher told me to press my head against the roof of the car and look for the bubble of air. 'Don't struggle to open a door,' my teacher said. 'If you do that, you have a fair chance of dying. Press your head against the roof and wait...
...Koizumi met as usual with his pupil the day after the betrothal was announced. As they began their lessons, the elated crown prince unconsciously spoke up: "It is really fine!" Dr. Koizumi echoed him: "It is really fine, is it not?" And they smiled at each other...
...entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify Omaha as a city, state, river or mountain, told his teacher: "It's an insurance company...