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AMERICA HURRAH. Three brilliant playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie refract and reflect some of the dominant hues in mid-20th century American life...
...part, California Democratic Congressman Lionel Van Deerlin, who has threatened to challenge Powell's seating, announced that instead of asking for an outright barring, he would request the appointment of a committee to investigate Powell's conduct. Under this plan, Powell could take his seat and draw his salary but would not be entitled to vote during the investigation. Harlem's leaders threatened to dispatch "busloads" of demonstrators to the capital in a spectacle reminiscent of the 1963 march on Washington. The purpose: to pressure Congress to keep its hands off Adam...
...William Seidman, a wealthy Michigan accountant with offices around the world, who ran unsuccessfully for state auditor on Romney's ticket in 1962; Detroit Real Estate Millionaire Max Fisher, this year's national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Also present were Romney's attorney, Richard van Dusen, and two of his top administrative aides, Walter DeVries and Jack Mclntosh, a onetime (1957-59) G.O.P. Congressman from Michigan...
...snakes are beginning to appear in Adam's Eden. The Hays subcommittee will make its report before the 90th Congress convenes, and last week one of its members, Republican Representative William Dickinson of Alabama, suggested that the investigating group may recommend criminal prosecution of Powell. California Representative Lionel Van Deerlin has threatened to block Powell from being seated by invoking a House rule giving any member the right to challenge the swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents...
...twinkle. Into his bursting composition he paints a current cucurbitaceous self-portrait. Then why another self-portrait at the age of 18 months? "Every artist tells how he started painting in the cradle," he says. Actually he began at 15; his first exhibition in Colombia was so derivative of Van Gogh, Gauguin and others that people thought it was a group show. And it sold...