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...largely endowed Change, Inc.?a fund from which artists with urgent cash trouble could get small sustaining grants within a matter of days. He could afford to help: his recent Hoarfrost multiples sell for up to $4,000 each; the 1962 silk-screen Barge could well command $500,000 on the market today. "Bob has put more of his money and time back into the art world than any artist alive," says one of his acquaintances. "He needs to believe in an art community. It's straight out of St. Paul?'We must love one another...
...were certain to produce a left of center government, which under intense popular pressure would have to pursue that orientation. In these circumstances, the U.S. government gladly acquiesced in the colonels' coup, in the occupation of Athens by elite units incorporated under the NATO military command. And wholehearted U.S. support continued throughout the seven-year period of the fascist dictatorship, in a manner that constituted an outright provocation for the freedom-loving Greek people...
...pronunciamento beat ABC to the verdict by seconds, CBS by 15 minutes.* "We're hypercautious," admitted Walter Cronkite. "We're always first," said a happy NBC News President Richard Wald as he munched tortilla chips at his Rockefeller Center election command post. To which William Sheehan, Wald's counterpart at ABC, replied: "I'd be satisfied to call...
...only career military man at the conference distinguished between leadership and command. "To oversimplify, a commander gets action by asserting his authority, his rank," said Army Colonel Peter Dawkins, 38, former Heisman Trophy winner as a West Point running back, Rhodes scholar and now commander of the infantry base at Fort Ord, Calif. "A leader is able to promote action by motivating people to do things...
...wind till the anchor checked her and she brought up to leeward of it, rocking easily and triumphantly." Riddle's most famous nautical scene involves a desperate 13-mile trip in a dinghy through solid fog and tricky waters, with Carruthers rowing like a metronome on command and Davies guiding the boat with a stop watch, a chart and an uncanny knowledge of tides, shoals and currents...