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Last week electoral colleges, formed according to Nationalist Premier Johannes Strydom's tricky new rules (TIME, May 23 et seq.), met to pack the country's Upper House and create the two-thirds majority that he needs to expunge from the constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition...
...months of bitter bickering, the Lake County (Fla.) school board finally closed the case of Fruit Picker Allan Platt's five school-age, part-Indian children who were falsely declared to be Negroes and were thus denied the right to attend a white school (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). Since the board found that it could not legally prove that the Platts are Negroes, it decided not to appeal the decision of a circuit-court judge allowing the Platts to attend whatever white schools in Florida they choose. ¶ The Regents of the University of the State...
...Great Art that is-can be the most lucrative investment in the world." Thus FORTUNE in its current issue sums up the booming art markets of Paris, London and Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 10 et seq.). In the past decade, favored French impressionists have quadrupled in value and the hottest moderns have increased ten times; old masters are now almost beyond price. In all, sales this year in auction rooms and galleries will reach $65 million. Can the bull market keep up the pace? Says FORTUNE: "The long-range answer seems to be that it can-and probably will." More...
...painting. When the really big collectors decide to show their hands, the price can go over the $100.000 mark, as it did when France's Mme. Jean Walter paid $113.000 to outbid Swiss Gun Manufacturer Emil Buhrle for a Cezanne still life, Pommes et Biscuits, at the 1952 Gabriel Cognacq sale in Paris...
...Hoffmann, first produced in 1881, four months after Offenbach's death, was a smash. The French, who wisely distrust overly sweet wines, have always had a weakness for sweet opera, and much of Hoffmann fits into the sucre fashion of Gounod's Faust, Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, etc. When it tries to get serious, it often just turns watery. But the score, if well played, always bubbles with its own kind of wit and Gallic lyricism...