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...upper gallery of the Cow Palace, Maryland Republican David Scull, a candidate for Congress in the November elections, sat brooding as Barry Goldwater's juggernaut flattened the G.O.P.'s moderates. "Only a quarter of the country is Republican," scowled Scull, "and only a third of the Republicans are for Goldwater. That's about 8% of the country for him. I'm not going to leave the party, but I'm going to run an independent campaign...
...Scull's figures may be open to dispute, but his deep gloom over the Goldwater nomination was by no means an isolated phenomenon. For just as the Senator from Arizona evokes an almost fanatic devotion among his followers, he stirs a feeling of horror among many who disagree with him. To them, he is the backward-looking leader of the new Luddites, enraged at the complexities of modern life and bent on smashing the machinery that has been painstakingly devised over the past 50 years to deal with them. "A group has taken control here," said Henry Cabot Lodge...
ROBERT C. SCULL New York City...
Plaster-packer Segal, whose works recall Pompeian people petrified in lava, did a cast of Scull, and James Rosenquist did a family portrait. In it, nothing shows of Scull but his legs and feet, next to a realistic taxicab with open door, and inside the cab, an upside-down closeup of Ethel being kissed on the nose by one of her children. "Not quite the Mona Lisa," says Scull...
...Luminous Thing. Scull is somewhat shocked by his notoriety as a Pop art collector. Of the 200-odd works he has bought, mostly by abstract expressionists, only about 40 are by Pop artists. His living room is an oasis of his earlier purchases, safe and strangely solacing works by Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. But he ardently defends...