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...would remain in South Viet Nam as long as North Viet Nam, "with comradely assistance from the regime in Peking," continues to wage war there. "The U.S.," said Adlai, "cannot stand by while Southeast Asia is overrun by armed aggressors. If anyone has the illusion that my government will abandon the people of Viet Nam, or that we shall weary of the burden of support that we are rendering these people, it will be only due to ignorance of the strength and conviction of the American people...
Style in Curtis is closer to old-fashioned capriccios than to surrealism. He puts familiar objects in unfamiliar settings with cavalier abandon. Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate on their minds, while disputing some unknown subject. A balloon bobs over a barren strand carrying a pipe organ. In The Drummer (see opposite page) the images on flaking and fading billboards alternate between stage flats and solid figures in a wistful play of appearance and reality...
...Hill zipped through Monte Carlo's narrow streets at a record average of 72.6 m.p.h. to beat the U.S.'s Richie Ginther by one lap and win the 195-mile race for the second straight year. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, was forced to abandon his Lotus when it lost oil pressure six miles from the finish...
...Senator, and Caroline Williams, 23, work out of a barnlike two-story building in Portland, embellished with huge portraits of Lodge as a combat officer, at the U.N., with Ike, and with a wounded G.I. in Viet Nam. The Lodge organizers throw fancy titles around to volunteer workers with abandon, which inspires pride and makes for impressive letterheads. Explains Goldberg: "We don't care what they call themselves. Anyone who wants a title can have...
...favorable ruling means that sesenors will still be allowed to abandon their theses at any time and submit 11 1/2 honors grades for CLGS distinction...