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...gather the old, the warped, the baffled, the embittered, the workless, aimless flotsam of a great city. A faded woman in an antiquated ball dress and long black gloves glides along, clutching a parasol. Two fat, coarse-faced girls stroll hand in hand. An old man sits limp and vacant-eyed, numbed by the weight of his loneliness...
...what thwarts the President's wishes on Capitol Hill is not so much Republican unity as Democratic disunity. There are lopsided Democratic majorities in both houses: 67 to 33 in the Senate and 256 to 178 in the House (one seat, last held by a Democrat, is vacant). Not since the Democratic high tide in the 1930s has a President enjoyed such a huge numerical advantage in Congress...
...outskirts of Brussels belongs to Paul Delvaux, a grey-maned, sad-faced man of 65 who, next to René Magritte, is Belgium's top surrealist and can sometimes be seen standing in his studio wearing blue jeans and sandals, slowly filling a huge canvas with vacant-eyed female nudes. Against one wall stands a row of skulls, and near them are several sets of toy trains. This is Paul Delvaux's world, and not even he, nervously wringing his hands and moving about his little house in agonizingly slow motion, can quite explain why it is what...
Krister Stendhal, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, has been named Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, filling the chair which has been vacant since the death of Arthur Darby Nock earlier this year. Stendhal has been at Harvard and the Harvard Divinity School since his arrival in the United States...
...wheat. In yet another political crisis, eight more Cabinet members lost their jobs, bringing to 53 the number of Cabinet casualties in the 13 months since President Arturo Frondizi was deposed by the military. In to replace them came Cabinet members Nos. 54 through 56, with five posts still vacant. As puppet President José María Guido ran through candidates, it was getting harder to fill the posts. A new Education Minister was found only an hour before the swearing-in ceremony; he had to race home to change his clothes, delaying things for 30 minutes...