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...same quandary as many of the college kids and young adults who came to see him. He had fought a lot of good fights this year, won a few, lost a few, and his own political party turned out to be his toughest opponent. One remembers the two-day stretch at Chicago when he tried to hammer out a peace plank acceptable to the Kennedyites and McCarthyites. After a lot of internecine name-calling, Gilligan, Dick Goodwin, and the Kennedy loyalists finally produced the minority report. The next day it was red-baited by Hubert's spear-chuckers and rejected...
...Monet's loving yet sharp-focused portrait of his wife, Madame Camille Monet, was pegged at $800,000. When bidding stopped at $500,000, the portrait was automatically withdrawn. Said Parke-Bernet's Peter Wilson: "There are surprises in every sale." He had little to regret; the two-day auction of 79 impressionist paintings had brought an alltime record...
Humphrey also suffered from some bizarre campaign scheduling. During a two-day swing through California, he spent fully four hours at conservative Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. "If we had gone to U.C.L.A.," explained an aide, "we would have been in for uncontrollable rudeness or total indifference." Thus he was spared the heckling of student militants, but he was also spared exposure to crowds of voters. He expended two valuable hours at Leisure World, a housing complex for the elderly in Seal Beach, where Comedian Jimmy Durante introduced him as "Hoi-but Humphrey." The residents were undoubtedly pleased when...
Propaganda Barrage. Nowhere is Europe's new mood of angst felt more keenly than in West Germany. Last week, as the Bundestag met for a two-day debate on the new threat to West Germany's security, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger expressed his people's anxiety in careful, guarded terms. "The events in Czechoslovakia compel us to exercise a high degree of vigilance," he said. "While the nuclear balance has diminished the threat of an all-out nu clear war, it also made a conventional attack by a potential enemy no longer seem impossible...
...early June, the kibbutz youth of the country gathered for a two-day conclave at the base of what used to be the Syrian Heights but is now called the Golan Heights. All young kibbtuzniks belong to a national movement of kibbutz youth, which holds four meetings a year to discuss the goals of their mode of living. The affair has all the trappings of a boy scout jamboree...