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Some 400,000 voters had elected a new Northern Ireland House of Commons. The issue on which every candidate stood was whether to keep the boundary by which Britain had divided her predominantly (65%) Protestant northern counties from predominantly Roman Catholic (92%) Eire. It was a foregone conclusion that those in favor of keeping the border would win. The surprise was that the Unionists (Protestants) increased their popular vote to 63% and rolled up a better than 3-to-1 majority in the House of Commons over the Republicans (Catholics...
Elsewhere in Britain last week, other blood-sportsmen stood bloodied but unbowed before their detractors. In Wiltshire, a meeting of local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge...
...paintings grew simpler and subtler, his cubes melted and merged. Where his predominantly low-keyed palette had given even his landscapes a stuffy, indoor look, he came to use flashes of fresh color. His compositions looked fragile as a house of cards, but being perfectly balanced they stood...
...show was that much of it bristled with sordid details (e.g., a couple embracing in a child's bed, under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an ugly, starkly naked young couple stood back to back in a puddle, holding hands as if against their will, staring dazedly into the encroaching darkness. Draped around the husband's weary neck hung a tie decorated with a pin-up girl. "Don't think I am making fun," says Koerner earnestly. "The fellow likes...
Johnny Goldsmith of Lowell was top scorer of the game with 18 points, and along with Walt Coulson, was responsible for the victor's tight defense. Wally Baker and Dave Warden stood out on the Dunster squad...