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...Bill Miller, usually gives a lot more than he gets. But last week, as Miller swept along a 4,931-mile trail through Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Colorado, he found himself on the receiving end for a change, fending off a spate of charges...
Goldwater's ascendancy at San Francisco brought these press theorists up short; the man so widely dismissed as a possibility was now the Republican Party's choice. But in the wake of the convention, the press defended its misjudgment with a spate of fresh anti-Goldwater comment. "Practically all of Goldwater's votes and views," said the Sacramento Bee, which had opposed Barry all along, "tend toward the enslavement of Americans." Said the Denver Post, "The Republican Party had its eyes open when it nominated Senator Barry Goldwater. It took the step deliberately; it knew what...
...outsider might have been forgiven for thinking that the sudden spate of problems constituted a severe blow to the new Prime Minister's prestige and a considerable test of his strength. They did, up to a point. But Shastri took the attacks with bland equanimity, explaining that there was no point in getting overexcited-or even in shouting back at his foes. "Democracy would break down if we started shouting from the benches," he shrugged...
...Florida Atlantic University, a state school built amidst the grass-grown runways of an old bomber base in Boca Raton, will take juniors, seniors and graduate students to absorb part of the overflow from Florida's spate of new junior colleges. The latest electronic teaching aids-including closed-circuit television in every room and study cubicle, as well as a computer-controlled library and information-processing operation-are part of its Learning Resources Center...
...spate of exhibits over the past two years, including a showing at this summer's Venice Biennale, and major sales to private collectors and galleries, including one for the sculpture garden at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, have drawn Ipousteguy to the top rank of France's sculptors. Now 44, he gravitated to sculpture after years as a painter and grade-school art teacher, a job he kept until two years ago. He turned to sculpture in 1949 because "with its denser aspects it is more suitable to my expression, which is often closer to sadness...