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...Most artists," says Carroll Cloar of Memphis, "are quite articulate about their philosophy of art. In fact, some have gotten to the point where they talk better than they paint." At 46, Artist Cloar himself does not like to talk much, but few artists need to less...
Wearing an Albatross. Financial men view Minnesota-born Dick Krafve with some reservations because of the Edsel fiasco, but he wears his albatross cheerfully. Says he of the Edsel: "It was a matter of timing. If we had gotten it out sooner it would have been tremendous." Both he and Adams are convinced that Raytheon can be reorganized at great savings, are on the lookout for profitable companies Raytheon can buy into...
...this rate, wailed Die Surge", the Nationalist mouthpiece, South Africa would soon achieve "permanent status as the skunk of the world." Foreign Minister Eric Louw was unmoved. "We will not hand over control of South Africa to a native majority," he told a radio interviewer. "South Africa has gotten used to being slandered for the past 14 years...
...ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order to be noticed. A professor of mine once commented that his definition of a good religious educator was a fellow who had had a bad case of John Dewey and gotten over it. I now feel somewhat the same way about neo-orthodoxy...
...Hogan had no such confidence in Hulan Jack's word; he took his case against Jack to the grand jury that same day. Next day Jack, shaken, was back in Hogan's office with the admission that he had gotten "panicky" and had lied. Subsequent testimony before the grand jury brought the four-count indictment, listing Ungar (who had testified under a privilege of immunity) as "coconspirator" but not as codefendant...