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...first clue to Juan Carlos' policies will be his choice of a new government. It is expected that Premier Arias, as a matter of form, will submit his own and his Cabinet members' resignations. A dour former chief of Spain's hated internal-security apparatus, Arias has little personal ambition. "I want to be Franco's last Prime Minister but not Juan Carlos' first one," he once confided to a friend. Nonetheless, if Juan Carlos urges Arias to carry on in office with his ministers, that will be interpreted by the left as a signal...
...account of what was being painted in Europe. The reason, as everyone "knew," was that European art no longer mattered. Paris was over; London, a village; only New York had a hammer lock on history. This eminently questionable belief, fathered by chauvinism and fed by the largest promotional apparatus in the history of art, lay at the root of American art politics in the '60s and formed the taste of a generation of museumgoers. Now the retreat is on. An exhibition called "European Painting in the '70s" opened last week at the Los Angeles County Museum...
Twenty minutes after the fire apparatus left the scene, another alarm sounded in the same building and the trucks returned, again in vain...
...Harrington agitate for a state welfare apparatus which would be controlled from the bottom by those it serves. Calling for such a restructuring of the system would thrust him into a politically suicidal conflict with the same advocates of New Deal state capitalism--people like Humphrey and Meany...
THIS, MAYBE, is the latest incarnation of the American private i., aged past the primed '40s and sagging benignly into dotage, yielding his sleek hide and tough aspect to crowsfeet and innocence. Transplanted from the big bad city and the crass apparatus called technology, the shamus is hiding out in Cape Cod, cloaked as a gracefully-aging police chief who abhors modern development...