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...school bill went down to a crushing defeat; the House-Senate foreign aid program came seriously compromised out of the committee room. And so, with the last major business of the session cleared away, tired, taut House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 79, agreed to rest his ailing back (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week, with his niece Jane Bartley in tow, Rayburn packed up and flew off for an indefinite rest at his home in Bonham, Texas, leaving behind a promise to return in case any legislative trouble arises...
...Race Riots." To New York's Amsterdam News, these tales of taut cities all add up to the same thing. RACE RIOTS screamed the Negro newspaper last week in a blaring black-and-white headline. More responsible-and much more alarmed-human relations experts rate racial tensions this summer dangerously high. In each community, young Negroes are frustrated by a double burden. They are unschooled, unskilled and, as a result, unemployable in today's tight labor market. And with more and more Negroes moving up from the South, they have been jammed together in steamy ghettos because white...
...current state of Events. Provided with a piercing, acid jazz score by Prince, the dance begins with a scene of total desolation: three men and a girl slump with wan, expressionless faces before Shahn's backdrop of a vast, bleak, windowed city. Uncoiling themselves, the dancers make sudden taut, tentative movements, then fall back in a slack-limbed pantomime of despair. To a suddenly quickened rhythm, a Negro dancer bounds onstage, is quickly surrounded by mocking, finger-snapping whites. For a time they applaud his acrobatics, then stare stonily as he wanders pathetically away. As a new stageful...
...strong subject." The other man is a brilliant scientist who is also a cad and a workmanlike seducer. These characters might result in a story as obvious and predictable as any triangle, but with a special kind of emotional geometry, Scottish Author James Kennaway has arrived at a taut, arresting and convincing novel...
Anguish & Bathos. The first rounds are awarded almost entirely to Kennedy: the murderous primary rumbles in Wisconsin and West Virginia that finally killed off Hubert Humphrey; the impact of the glamorous and numerous Kennedy family on a startled nation; the surge of Stevenson's forces and the taut control in the Kennedy camp at the Los Angeles convention. Then it is the Republicans' turn, and Dick Nixon steps onto the resin. There is the anguish of the Vice President, halted at the very beginning of his campaign, in the midst of his triumphant tour of the South...