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Died. Lee Oscar Lawrie, 85, German-born U.S. sculptor best known for his huge bronze Atlas in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...
There is also resentment of the easy acceptance of such white jazzmen as Brubeck, Kenton, Mulligan and Shearing. In fact, notes Dizzy Gillespic, "colored musicians are simply resentful of the fact that in every sphere of American life the white guy has it better." The resentment is too often expressed in the refusal of Negro groups to hire white musicians. It has presented the jazz world with a critical problem in an already critical time-the number of jazz performers is increasing more rapidly than the number of jobs available...
...about the tiny South American country on the Caribbean coast whose people have elected, by conventional parliamentary procedure, an avowed Marxist as their prime minister. Under the leadership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana has been attempting since 1953 to pursue a policy of gradual socialism in the domestic sphere and a policy of neutralism abroad...
...give it because (1) it fights the Communists; (2) we are rich, and they are poor, and we must act for the relief of misery and the solace of our souls (This might be called the Bowles approach); (3) we wish to bring underdeveloped countries within our own sphere of influence...
...that this will be called appeasement, but it is no more so than the aid the U.S. used to give Poland and Yugoslavia. The two cases are parallel in that the only positive gain from either is ephemeral--the hope of bringing sections of the country under the Western sphere of influence. It is argued here that the most to be won from rapprochement is negative--helping to strip the issue of its ideological feathers...