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...approach, Van der Hamen had a tremendous influence in forming the school of Spanish still-life painting that later developed with Meléndez, De Loarte and even Goya. After the show closes in Indianapolis in late March, it will go to the Museum of Art of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence for a month, and then be dispersed again to its scattered owners...
...derived partly from "the basic Puritan ethic of the American people," Wisconsin's liberal Democratic Senator William Proxmire replied that the President's proposals violated that "good old" ethic "in such a shocking and drastic way that it is very, very hard for us to accept." Said Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell: "Even as a liberal Democrat, I have doubts about the continuation of a deficit. I think we would like to see a balanced budget. This worry, I think, is throughout the country as well...
Youthfully quickstepping out of a regional conference in Boston were six New England Governors, two Republicans and four Democrats, averaging only 42⅓ years in age. There was Rhode Island Republican John H. Chafee, 40, New Hampshire Democrat John W. King, 44, Maine Republican John H. Reed, 42, Vermont Democrat Philip H. Hoff, 38, Connecticut Democrat John Dempsey, 48, and Massachusetts Democrat Endicott Peabody, 42. All but Reed and Dempsey are newcomers elected last fall (Hoff became Vermont's first Democratic Governor in 109 years). With a vigah befitting their years, the six agreed to ask their legislatures...
...time-honored custom. Until eight years ago, Rhode Island's Rudolph F. Haffenreffer, the Narragansett beer king, owned the 6,130-ft. Mount Hope suspension bridge on Route 114, which then averaged about 5,000 cars a day, paying 60? a passage...
...memory that undid Britain's efforts to keep its textile machinery monopoly. In 1789, after memorizing the designs, Derbyshire Millworker Samuel Slater slipped off in disguise to Rhode Island, where he duplicated Britain's cotton-spinning equipment and founded the New England textile industry...