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...replace Upadhyaya, a longtime politician and one of the original founders of the Jana Sangh, party members met last week and picked another moderate of the same stripe: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 41, an ex-newspaper editor who served as party leader in the lower house of Parliament. After Upadhya-ya's death, which was followed by an emotional funeral and ritual burning of the body in New Delhi, the new party leader will need all of his political skills to keep his party extremists in line...
...actor wound up his assignment in a George Hamilton movie in Munich and returned to the U.S. He had already done a few TV stints of the Tarzan stripe: one commercial, an episode on Batman, three stints on Bewitched. The Tarzan role was typical: he played Brigadier Sir Basil Bertram, a blimpish general...
...four weeks since it was published, the book has sold 150,000 copies, a French record. It has been reviewed by every reputable French publication. It has been read by practically all the members of the National Assembly and cited by politicians of almost every stripe. De Gaulle himself has not deigned to comment publicly, but he reportedly told a friend that the book was "an irrefutable analysis-but the theory is trivial...
When Frank Stella's first canvases, consisting of black pin-stripe squares inside of squares, were shown at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1960, local papers reacted in horror. "Unspeakably boring!" snapped Herald Tribune Critic Emily Genauer. A less determined man might have gone into life insurance-but Stella painted on. His latest canvases, on view at the Castelli Gallery, are newly brilliant with a rainbow of Day-Glo colors, but they are as elemental in concept as ever (see color opposite). What has changed is that instead of being banned for boredom, Stella...
Certainly Stokes, with his expensively tailored, double-breasted pin-stripe suits, monogrammed (CBS) shirts and Antonio y Cleopatra cigars, is no leveler. His children go to private schools. And now that he is king of Cleveland's mountain, he can be expected to work from the top to excise the civic decay that has retarded Cleveland's progress...