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...March for Causes. For better or for worse, Suburbia in the 1960s is the U.S.'s grassroots. In Suburbia live one-third of the nation, roughly 60 million people who represent every patch of democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring and professional pursuit in the country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist...
...Rauschenberg calls his works "combines' because they combine painting with props pasted or fastened to the picture ("It begins with a painting and sort of moves out into the room" He gained notoriety by attaching a pillow to a patchwork quilt, splashing paint over them and calling the result The Bed But such beginning efforts had "a souvenir quality, Rauschenberg says, "which I am now trying to kill. Nostalgia tends to eliminate some of the directness. Immediacy is the only thing you can trust " Among the fragments of immediate experience with which Rauschenberg floods his latest work are stuffed...
When & Where? Last week, in answer to a motion that the government "give urgent consideration to this question," Home Secretary Rab Butler was ready to make good a historic promise. Her Majesty's government, he told Parliament, would do something about the nation's crazy-quilt licensing laws at last. As things stand now, a London pub may stay open only nine hours each weekday, and these hours must be divided into 'one period around lunchtime and one period in the evening. But since each borough or local council can fix its own hours...
...began to slip his bright young men from Rome into Sicily's Christian Democratic organization. Last October, outraged by this infringement on Sicilian autonomy (and threat to Sicilian patronage), Milazzo bolted the party. He managed to get control of the regional assembly by putting together a crazy-quilt coalition of Monarchists, Fascists, dissident Christian Democrats and Communists...
...been in every state of the Union except Tennessee, has come to know and be known by some 1,500 professional Democrats who generally go to conventions. During the 1958 campaign alone he traveled 25,000 miles in 19 states. Between times he managed to cover Massachusetts like a quilt, post volunteer "secretaries" in more than 300 of the state's 351 cities and towns, and win a spectacular 870,000-vote plurality over hapless Republican Vincent Celeste (Kennedy lost $10 to a campaign worker by betting that he could not break...