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...pledge that "every child must have the best education our nation can provide." Even more radically, the proposal skirts the divisive aid-to-parochial-schools issue by allowing what Washington calls "Cardinal Spellman's camel"-that is Roman Catholic hunger for aid-to poke its head under the tent. School districts receiving federal money would buy textbooks and scientific equipment for underprivileged children in public and parochial schools alike, unless this is specifically banned by state law. As many as 90% of the nation's school districts might benefit, although Title VI of the Civil Rights Act would...
Visual Aids. Buddhism's strident inner contradictions were on display last week in a great red, orange and blue tent pitched in the Deer Park of Sarnath, India, where Buddha preached his first sermon 500 years before Christ. There some 150 Buddhist leaders from 25 nations gathered for the Seventh World Fellowship of Buddhists. Begun in 1950 as a kind of informal, monk-to-monk faith forum, this year's meeting often sounded more like a U.N. debate. Russia's Venerable Lama Jambal Dirji Gomboeve?representing 500,000 Soviet Buddhists living mostly in Asiatic Russia?urged the conference to "condemn...
...plaintively: "If you fail to give me room, where can I go?" While the Socialists bustled about the countryside in a car preceded by a motorcyclist bearing a red flag, Madame Pandit toured the villages on foot and spent the last 25 days of the campaign living in a tent in the midst of the peasants...
...Music Tent. Chagall kept flower arrangements near him while he worked, and his design soon took on the shape of petals, which blossomed into a dreamlike homage to opera and ballet. His favorite composer, Mozart, occupies half of the big blue gore with angelic nudes and a bird playing The Magic Flute; Chagallic vignettes of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov fill the rest of the blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird...
More important than foreknowledge of victory, however, was the fact that no one in the ballroom felt at home with this unusual new party, this Texas-tent that Johnson had thrown over the strangest of political bed-fellows...