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...against finding one at bargain-basement prices is-well-something like the nth power of a googolplex. But the bare possibility can turn the most level-headed curator into a creature half Hawkshaw, half Walter Mitty. Such was the spine-tingling predicament of Harvard's Fine Arts Chairman Seymour Slive. On a busman's holiday to Los Angeles, he had been casually shown an unsigned 17th century oil sketch, The Head of Christ, at the Paul Kantor Gallery. The glimpse proved unforgettable. Recalls Slive: "The left side of the face looks almost like a death's head...
...Seymour Sllve, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, said that his department does not have the store of courses whose titles could be changed to contribute its 10 per cent. If Fine Arts 12, which he said should be considered a Gen Ed course, combined with the department's three upper level Humanities courses, does not total 10 per cent, then the department will not be able to meet the requirement...
...Arts Today was organized by the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, with the cooperation of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Most of the money came from a foundation set up by Investment Banker Seymour Knox, 66, longtime avant-garde art angel. Some conservative-minded Buffalonians were indignant at spending tens of thousands of dollars to stage the "popping of balloons and manipulation of plumbing plungers...
...Seymour M. Peyser '34, former administrator of the Agency for International Development, will speak to the Eliot House Forum on "U.S. Private Investment in Developing Nations" at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House dining hall...
Crossed Fingers. At the Joint Economic Committee hearings, Economist Seymour Harris of the University of California at San Diego pointed out that eleven of 15 so-called "leading indicators" are on the rise. Said Budget Director Kermit Gordon: "The present healthy expansion will keep going through a fifth consecutive year." About the only word of caution came from Raymond J. Saulnier, who had been President Eisenhower's chief economist; pointing to a rapidly lengthening work week and "incipient inflation," he said that the economy shows signs of "overheating," and he warned, "Don't push your luck...