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...this year, when Nigeria, Senegal and the former French Sudan will have been admitted, the only sizable nations not belonging to the U.N. will be Switzerland (out of devotion to utter neutrality), Red China, Outer Mongolia and the cold-war twins: East and West Germany, North and South Korea, North and South Viet...
...Rule of Rules. The rest of Kennedy's legislative program shortly met with an utter rout in the House at the hands of Virginia's leathery old Howard W. Smith, who has been a Congressman since Kennedy was 13 years old. The consent of Chairman Smith's powerful Rules Committee is needed to send a House bill into Senate-House conference. Backed up by the committee's long-time alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats, conservative "Judge" Smith handed Northern Democrats a tough warning: the committee would kill off Kennedy's $1.25-an-hour minimum...
Suddenly it came. "Da sheontee kono meki no sienti holay coriente no sheonte mees . . ." said one of the women in a cool, musical voice. She continued for about a minute to utter these sounds, meaningless in any known language. No one glanced up or spoke. After a minute or two of silence, she "interpreted" what she had said: "The Lord thy God says unto thee that he is here in the midst of thee . . . When you pray, fear not. He is with you always, and his love surrounds you like a fleecy cloud. Thus saith the Lord." This was greeted...
...while, Fadell also had Kline's son and daughter on the payroll of his public relations firm. It was obvious from Attorney General Mondale's report that the foundation's board of directors, made up of prominent businessmen and civic leaders, had been derelict in its utter failure to oversee the foundation's finances. Admitted former Board President R. Bruce Reinecker, a Minneapolis printing executive: "We put considerable trust in Marv Kline. Obviously, it wasn't justified...
Wrote Critic Mario Monteverdi in utter exasperation* at the Fautrier prize: "It is fitting that Fautrier should have won . . . for his are the ugliest, most vulgar, and useless non-paintings in the entire show. Giving him a prize clears the way for a legitimate revolt which, if clamorous enough, might save the Biennale...