Word: wickers
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Sulzberger also appointed White House Correspondent Tom Wicker, 38, as the Times's Washington bureau chief, succeeding James Reston, who asked to be relieved of this duty to devote more time to his column and to developing front-page news. Reston's new title: associate editor. Unaffected by Sulzberger's "structural changes": John B. Oakes's 'supervision of the Times's editorial page...
...Triennale, whose theme is leisure, the emphasis is on the lighthearted Yet the stocky curves of Finnish target rifles or rowboats, the unbulky, trim-below-the-hips power of an Italian Gilera 250-cc. motorcycle, or the sweep of Italian wicker rocking chairs show amply that much art is not made to hang on walls...
...York police would have suffered considerably less from thrown bottles, bricks, etc., if they had been provided with wicker shields such as those I have seen used by the Nigerian riot police. These shields are light, and they protect most of the head and body against the usual missiles of an enraged mob. They are also reasonably inexpensive, easy to transport in a hurry to trouble spots, and a good morale booster for harassed policemen...
MURIEL KALISH-Staempfli, 47 East 77th. New Yorker Muriel Kalish, 31, is a modern primitive painter, unschooled in art but gifted with a photographic memory. Her colors are happy, her composition curious, her intuition unerring in paintings furnished with wicker chairs, flowered wallpaper, braided rugs and, candid as can be, female nudes and fully dressed males. First showing. Through June...
...book is not a triumph of scholarship. Some articles (all are written by Times reporters and editors), such as Tom Wicker's "The President," read like a bad Gov 1 text. Others, such as the articles on the issues--civil rights, economics, war and peace--read like warmed-over Sunday magazine pieces. The best articles are an intelligent analysis of "The Republican Strategy" by Joseph Loftus, and a witty discussion of the "Imponderables" of electioneering by Cabell Phillips. The final third of the book is a consise rundown of the political situation in each state, and the back...