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...overcome a lack of personal appeal. Beame has concentrated his efforts over the last half year audition various city agencies trying to establish a reputation as a fiscal conservative. The comptroller has gotten excellent publicity lately, but it remains to be seen whether be can talk tough enough to reach the Democrats who are looking for a law and order candidate...
...couldn't have gotten a better price," said Director Thomas P. Moving, struggling to defend the clandestine sale of the Metropolitan Museum's major Rousseau, The Tropics, which-together with a Van Gogh-went out the back door to a dealer for a rumored total of $1.5 million. He might have tried Japan first. Last week Tokyo Art Dealer Tokushichi Hasegawa took delivery of the Rousseau, which he had bought from Marlborough Fine Art in London and resold to an Osaka businessman (anonymous, for "tax reasons") for $2,000,000. Said Hasegawa who, at 33, is vice president...
...notion seems to have gotten into the heads of several people, inside and outside SCLC, that the Communists wanted Angela Davis to be convicted so they could make the most use of her as a proof of the unscrupulousness of American government. Precisely how this notion gained currency is somewhat obscure, but Angela Davis denies that it has any validity, as do several top SCLC staffers. Far from feeling that the interaction between C.P. and SCLC officials further alienated the two groups, she feels that their cooperation in her defense did much to bring them together...
...meted out to inattentive ballplayers. Fitzsimmons said that on one occasion Knight told a boy who had not paid attention during one of his lectures to run a quarter of a mile to get a blade of grass. When the boy returned, Fitzsimmons said, Knight told him he had gotten the wrong blade and should go back into the woods and get another...
...time, many people assumed that the suspended players had gotten drunk up at Army, Hynes swears that this was not the case, "We went out to some parties that night, but we got back to the hotel before the 12:30 a.m, curfew. A little while later, we began feeling hungry, so a few of us went out to get something to eat. The whole incident was unfortunate. I'd have to any that the suspension was the worst thing that's happened to me at Harvard...