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...inauguration, Siqueiros was at work, sporting his jaunty, battered fedora and wielding special long-handled brushes. He was putting the finishing touches on a final white steed. By midmorning, he turned up, well spruced, at the entrance to the gallery containing the mural to help cut the ribbon with Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz-the honored guest of the regime that jailed...
...politics than his fellow Mexicans. They hail him as the grand old man of the triumvirate (with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco) that launched the Mexican mural renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Throughout Mexico, he is today known as "El Maestro," and no sooner had the ribbon been cut than hundreds of Mexicans, from art students to aging revolutionary veterans,, swarmed through Chapultepec Castle's drafty corridors to get an early view of his handiwork...
Then stalwart Pete Adams topped off a fine afternoon by anchoring Bill Shrout, Dick Saxe and captain Jim Seubold to an easy win in the final freestyle relay. Adams had one of his best days -- he preceded the relay blue ribbon with victories in the 100 and 200-yard freestyles...
Kerr himself did not lack for new things to do. Last week he was named by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching-to head a blue-ribbon study of higher education in the U.S., with the option of making it either a part-time or full-time job. As Kerr's interim successor, one of his longtime aides, Senior Vice President Harry Wellman, 66, stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender...
Though Americans delight in newness, their interest in antiques continues to grow. One indication is that attendance at Manhattan's blue-ribbon, ten-day 1967 Winter Antiques Show, which opened last week, has doubled in the past decade and is expected to reach 30,000 this year. Another sign is inflation; prices in the past year have commonly risen 5% even greater if more people felt confident that they could distinguish fine pieces from fakes. Unfortunately, the amateur shopping at a seaside "gifte shoppe" is all too likely to wind up paying $50 for a $10 copy...