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...York's Rockefeller was mortally wounded. Rocky went to New Hampshire's Dartmouth College, has many acquaintances in the state, is the Governor of a neighboring state. Moreover, New Hampshire's postage-stamp size seemed made to order for Rockefeller's ebullient, back-slapping brand of campaigning. Beyond question, Rocky made gains in the closing weeks, but not nearly enough to overcome the political handicap of his divorce and remarriage. That handicap will likely plague him wherever he goes. But after his New Hampshire defeat, he put on an optimistic air. Lodge...
Farms for Lease. Today, American schoolchildren commit to memory the names, dates and events that the Courant once committed to print. In 1765 the paper published a wrathful editorial ("The most arbitrary monarchs in the universe") and suspended publication for five weeks to protest the Stamp Act just enforced by England. Thomas Paine's revolutionary tracts were carried in full in the Courant; so was the Declaration of Independence-on an inside page, and under the mildest of headlines: A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...Masters have the endurance to assure that the sophomores entering their Houses bear a certain stamp (one could, for instance, imagine a Master who wanted as many public school students as possible). Other Masters are content to indicate their preferences for a dozen or so students, and let the remainder of the admissions be fixed by the students' preferences and the distribution requirements. Still other Masters are happy with whatever balanced group of sophomores they receive...
Most art brut bears a primordial stamp, but Samant's is sophisticated; his indecipherable scribbles speak to man deeper than the syntax of known language. To Samant, they tell of his own introspection: "It is as if I have walls around me." Yet he speaks to the world through their painterly surfaces, and centuries echo musically off them...
...brave attempt to infiltrate the intelligentsia- or at least to make it eat more-King Korn Stamp Co. last week announced a new addition to the list of goodies that can be redeemed with its yellow stickums. The prize: an original (20 in. by 14 in.) oil painting, Montmartre Street, by Maurice Utrillo...