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...most accurate weather vane of the winds of contemporary U.S. art is the annual show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum of American Art. "We try to spread a wide net," says Director Lloyd Goodrich, 66. He and his three top staffers traveled all over the U.S. during the past year, poking into galleries and collections to catch the best...
...Labor Party's "modernized symbol," shown on TIME'S cover, a weather vane? It is certainly an optical illusion, heralding an East wind or a West wind-depending on which way you look...
...When no wind blows, even the weather-vane has character...
...President Kwame Nkrumah rushed out statements of support for Lumumba's Congo government, offered to mobilize their minuscule armed forces to help throw the Belgians out. "This," announced Touré, "is henceforth the responsibility of African soldiers." But the sharpest cut of all came from the weather-vane Congo government, whose Cabinet only a few hours earlier had voted full confidence in Dag. From Premier Lumumba, still off on his travels, came instructions to his Cabinet colleagues to demand the immediate departure of all U.N. troops from the Congo. After all, he said, "they are only parading...
...single, easy-to-handle lug sail. Gentle and fun-loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...