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...Bill Woods, a Texan who arrived in Guatemala and quickly decided to open up unused northern jungle land for Indians, who were running out of farming space in the highlands. Despite feverish opposition and regular threats on his life from landowners in the area, by the 1970s Woods had managed to relocate 1,000 families. Then, three years ago, the priest's small plane exploded in midair. Missionaries are convinced Woods was murdered...
...member of that rare breed, the native Texan, I have watched with much horror the Yankee reinvasion of the state [May 11], particularly in Dallas and Houston. Our streets are becoming congested and our resources scarce. The Northerners are trying to destroy our cities, as they have their own. We will fight to keep the unions out of here and to prevent Texas from becoming a socialistic welfare state...
...Reagan. One night Johnson ordered his aide Richard Goodwin to redesign the U.S. to abolish disease, ignorance and poverty. Goodwin wrote it out on his Smith-Corona, and Johnson gave it voice at the University of Michigan stadium. Reagan was a bit more in scale than the flamboyant Texan last week, but his people in his arena, a joint session of Congress, cheered and whistled as if their team were on the 10-yd. line and heading for a score. That Reagan was proposing to undo a lot of Johnson's "too great society" was another of the wonderful...
There is quite a lot of "narrative" art, disconnected accumulations of words and images that owe something to Jasper Johns, something to James Rosenquist. The most conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at all. The sole artist concerned with it is an Englishman, Conrad Atkinson (Hirsh-horn), who makes ferocious indictments-by-assemblage over such issues as Northern Ireland and asbestos poisoning of workers. His accumulations of data-letters, text panels, photos of graffiti and so on-undergo very little aesthetic transformation...
...Laxalt and Representatives Jim Wright and Robert Michel suddenly found themselves making their entrance with Nancy Reagan and a giant cake standing 8 ft. tall on its platform. "I'd like to light it," said Nancy, "but I can't reach the candle." Without stopping to think, Texan Wright leaned over and gave her a lift. When the President arrived, to strains of Happy Birthday to You in rare congressional harmony, he had to be dissuaded from blowing out the candle jump-shot style. Said Reagan: "I bet I could do it from here without touching the cake...