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...nearly 8,000,000, according to the British equivalent of a Nielsen survey, but by the time he had finished his 15-minute address, more than 1,000,000 viewers had switched off their sets. With syrupy platitudes, the Prime Minister glossed over difficulties and blurred issues, failed to spell out forcefully what his policies would really mean to Britain. "The Prime Minister lolls and drools in fireside chats," said Ray Gunter, a member of the Labor Party's shadow cabinet. "He says we have done jolly well, but we ought to do a little better ... It is wrong...
Mastermind of the takeover attempt is smooth-talking I.C.I. Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 57, rated by some as Britain's ablest executive. Defeat would spell a sorry setback for ambitious Chambers, but he obviously counts on winning...
...membership of the Congress has not changed-and neither has its temper. That fact can only spell trouble for President Kennedy's domestic legislative program. "We look and we look," says a top Kennedy aide, "but it's hard to see much daylight anywhere...
...when the cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque began to appear in Paris, Archipenko fell under their spell. He was perhaps the first (historians disagree) to bring cubism to sculpture. Today his work of that great period (see color} seems as vital as it was when it was done in the years before the first World War. But if these show Archipenko at his most memorable, they do not fully reveal...
...Houston show, Derain is at one moment a pointillist, painting with dots (see color), at other moments he is under the spell of Van Gogh or Cézanne. But in his whole work, the old masters are also present, for unlike Vlaminck, Derain spent hours copying in the Louvre. "I do not innovate," he explained. "I transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into...