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...outside the president's office won students the right to argue their demand for integration of 150 university-owned apartment houses. At Swarthmore, students from 57 campuses spent the weekend in disarmament seminars. And at the University of California in Berkeley, rallies, demonstrations and caucuses boiled incessantly outside Sather Gate, a casbah for political activists...
...Oslo jeweler and an apprentice jeweler himself, Sather turned to art after he bought his young wife a paintbox for Christmas. "She never got it," he says. "I started in painting myself and found I couldn't stop." Sather went to art school and learned all he could, then embarked for Canada with his family. His reasons: "A Canadian consul in Norway told me this was a wonderful country. Besides, I hadn't been here before. If you walk on the same street too many times, you don't see anything...
...found work in a factory, painted when he could. Last year Sather had a show in Winnipeg which netted $800. With that, he bundled his family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields...
...relishes rough going, Sather the artist is curiously gentle. He portrays the half-hidden things of nature-a fish in a clump of water weeds, a frog squatting in shadow. He draws clearly and delicately, in a style that seems more Chinese than European. His is not the sort of art to startle the world into acceptance, yet it may well grow to command great respect. He is only 37, and wholly dedicated...
...wish to do something." says Sather matter-of-factly, "you can do it. My wife and I both had everything we wanted as children; now we've learned to appreciate what we can get. I believe my old station wagon is as good as a Rolls-Royce, if my car can make the trip...