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...reopening of classes in a belligerent mood of complaint and protest. Last-minute compromises prevented strikes that would have shut down the school systems of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Toledo. Teachers did go on strike in East St. Louis, Ill., as well as in scattered school districts from Rhode Island to Utah, including 16 districts in Michigan...
...most contentious issues-a coalition government. Though a floor fight over the plank was virtually certain, the doves' hopes of winning it were all but destroyed by the tough mood of the delegates in the wake of Russia's thrust into Czechoslovakia. Said Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell: "The triumph of the hawks of the Kremlin has strengthened the hawks in Chicago." A Louis Harris poll showed that Americans opposed a unilateral bombing halt, 61 to 24, and a coalition government...
Michigan's George W. Romney, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy pledged their help, while Washington's Daniel Evans, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Colorado's John Love-all three Rockefeller men-signed up for posts on the candidate's "key issues" committee. Nixon, comfortably ensconced at San Diego's Mission Bay resort, talked by phone with John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller, inviting Rocky to his Fifth Avenue apartment (which, as it happens, is right next door to the Governor's) this week for a chat...
...circuitous route of abstract expressionism. A gregarious jazz trombonist who played with Gene Krupa's band, Kanovitz, 39, was first attracted to art by a fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until 1962, though privately he enjoyed drawing the figure. "Then," he says...