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...spectators in a stadium that holds nearly 45,000. With their noses out of joint because of the Braves' decision to leave, Milwaukee county supervisors last week scorned Owner William Bartholomay's $500,000 offer to let the team blow town, thus dooming the Braves to lame-duck along in the ghostly silence of Milwaukee County Stadium, winning games and whistling Dixie...
...Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2. The elec tion will be held under "Plan A," the first of four reapportionment plans passed last December by a lame-duck Republican legislature. The State Su preme court voided all four, noting specifically that Plan A violated a state constitutional provision against a lower house of more than 150 members. A three-judge federal court overturned that ruling on the grounds that some reapportionment action must be taken...
...admits, "Sometimes I get scared by my own work." She knows the primitive idea that making likenesses of people gives the maker power over them. "If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me," says Marisol, "I will make a sculpture of him-maybe as a duck. But I don't do that to those who are nice...
...three, "the Sit-wells." Edith was its high priestess, and in preparation for the part she fitted herself from head to foot with psychological braces: floor-length gowns cut from upholstery material, turbans and toques and tippets of excited hue, finger rings containing chunks of aquamarine the size of duck eggs. In full regalia, she looked like Lyndon B. Johnson dressed up as Elizabeth...
...never stops or even slows down. To reporters accompanying him on backyard walks, to dinner guests, to aides who sit at his bedside at night, to Latin American leaders, and to the nation and the world over television, he constantly explains and defends his decisions. "When you duck, dodge, hesitate and shimmy, every man and his dog give you a kick," he said. "I expect to get kicked, but I don't expect to duck." Replying to complaints about his decision to send troops into the Dominican Republic, Johnson snapped: "I realize I am running the risk of being...