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Author Iglauer, the wife of The New Yorker Writer Philip Hamburger, flew to Northern Canada, attended the conferences as an observer, learned how to walk in deep snow (bend the knees to exert a forward rather than downward thrust) and got an Eskimo name: Oneekatualeeotae, "The woman who tells the story." She tells it deliberately and unemotionally, but she provides plenty for the reader to feel emotional about...
...young Americans who are already risking their lives to bring aid and know-how to the countryside. So far, two AID men have been kidnaped and eight have died-in ambushes and assassinations-on this unsung duty. One new arrival is Steve Shepley, a 27-year-old New Yorker, who is USAlD's action representative in the Delta province of An Xuyen. Puttering unarmed in a 35-h.p. boat through the Viet Cong-infested paddies, he visits village after village, chatting with the people in fluent Vietnamese, assessing their needs, hauling in food and building supplies and organizing emergency...
When Bobby Kennedy ran for Senator in 1964, El Diario plastered pictures of him all over the paper and editorialized: "They say that you own a house in Virginia and that you vote in Massachusetts. But we know better than that. You are a real New Yorker, born in The Bronx." Last month, after Kennedy had made his swing around Latin America, El Tiempo's Juan Casanova said in his gossip column, "Off the Record": "When he arrived in Caracas, at the Hotel Tamanaco, Kennedy took his own liquor to the pool, not buying in the local bars. Thus...
Sven Lukin, 31, a Latvian-born New Yorker, is another art pioneer of top. His zest for contours dates back to his student days at the University of Pennsylvania, where he watched architecture students make models of shaped canvas. Currently he is curling scrollwork-like strips of canvas out into space, as if they were peeled from flat murals...
...apprehended the murderers and a grateful public had them hanged; Establishment representative Dwight MacDonald exposed the status drop-in and a literate public saw him ridiculed. As in all senseless episodes, only epilogues were wanting: for the Clutter family murder, an explanation of such infrequent violence; for the New Yorker's reputation, unequivocal proof of current literary merit. The publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" on the Clutter affair, recently serialized in the New Yorker, triumphantly answers both needs...