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...allowed near Nixon." But later, said Miller, the cameraman spent three days on Jack Kennedy's campaign plane and got all the informal pictures he wanted. Added Miller, unkindly: "If Nixon doesn't wake up and realize he must be human, he'll be an elder statesman at a very early...
Although more young composers join the aleatory ranks every year, most critics denounce the movement as fraudulent, or misguided, or both. Staying one step ahead of his critics. Senior Statesman Cage is already proclaiming aleatory music passe -he prefers to think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...
Amid setbacks elsewhere in Latin America, democracy won a signal victory in Colombia. For four years President Alberto Lleras Camargo, a journalist and educator turned statesman, has toiled doggedly for stability, and for enough moderation of age-old political hatreds to permit his nation to haul itself out of the 19th century into the 20th. Next month his term as President ends. Lleras, a Liberal, is seeing to it that his office will be turned over to a Conservative, a man whose party he opposes, but whose right to peaceful succession* he firmly upholds...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, however, termed the President's address "an extremely effective, impressive speech, worthy of a horrible situation." To resume testing is the only alternative to "a piecemeal surrender in the familiar manner of the 30's," and any responsible statesman would have made the same decision...
Died. Hu Shih, 70, onetime (1938-42) Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. and Nationalist China's most venerable scholar-statesman; of a heart attack; near Taipei (see THE WORLD...