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...hustings, both sides had their problems. The Tory government had to own up last week to the fact that the trade gap had widened still further in August (see WORLD BUSINESS). Labor, whose promise to deliver growth without inflation hangs upon keeping Britain's petulant trade unions in line, was suddenly confronted with a scattered rash of unofficial strikes. And Labor got some bad news in the form of a forecast for good weather through Election Day. Analysts are convinced that part of the turn in Tory fortunes is the result of England's golden summer. This, plus...
...Painting relates to both art and life," Rauschenberg once said. "I try to act in the gap between the two." For him, painting must neither seek the illusion of being something nor become the projection of the self onto the canvas, as it was for Abstract Expressionists Pollock and Kline. Nor is painting social protest to a man of always sunny disposition: "I like society and don't want to leave...
Another such adventure in the gap between art and life concerns a stuffed Angora goat with a tire around its tummy. Such agglomerations of oils and objects Rauschenberg calls "combines," for they bridge the gap without being either side...
...After Him." Trainer Carl Hanford gave Valenzuela only one order: "If nobody else runs with Gun Bow on the pace, you go after him." But by the time the field had rounded the clubhouse turn, Gun Bow had opened up a four-length lead. In the backstretch, the gap was five lengths. But now, for the first time all year, Kelso was running as though he enjoyed it-with the flat, powerful stride that he inherited from his famous great-grand-daddy, Man O' War. Valenzuela sensed it: "Suddenly, he was the old Kelso again. Suddenly, I knew...
...director of ABC. "In fact the odds are in favor of disadvantaged Negroes' being admitted over disadvantaged whites. But the colleges can't lower their standards, and the Negroes can't meet them because they come from inferior secondary schools." ABC wants to close the gap...