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Californians who voted 2 to 1 last year for Proposition 14-a constitutional amendment voiding state laws against housing discrimination-set the stage for an inevitable and important quarrel in the courts. Now called Section 26 of the California constitution, the amendment states in its key passage...
...this still left Peter Wilson, chairman of Sotheby's of London, which owns Parke-Bernet, far from convinced. Said he, in no mood to quarrel with a major customer: "If this proves to have come from the workshop of Verrocchio, Mr. Rorimer and his curator are to be congratulated on being the only connoisseurs to recognize the fact before the auction." As for the Metropolitan, at worst it was stuck with a sculpture that had once sold for $200,000. And besides, the girl is pretty...
...Prince should not have been so surprised. During his Red China visit, he had yielded to the blandishments of his hosts to remark at a state banquet that "it is impossible to defeat the imperialists if one accepts compromise with them"-which in the context of the Sino-Soviet quarrel was a clear slap at Moscow. The Prince's maneuver was Orientally scrutable: he feels that "the irresistible march forward of the Chinese people" is certain to sweep all Asia. By riding with the Chinese tiger, he hopes to avoid being gobbled up. It is likely to be quite...
...conciliatory suggestions, Powers is stepping up his demands. What he wants now is a guarantee from each of the papers that it will take on employees displaced by other papers because of merger or automation. The publishers have sworn to resist. "Labor and management," said Raskin, "can prolong their quarreling until the cake over which they quarrel crumbles into nothing...
...Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over who should divert how much water and where from the Jordan...