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...Chinese vases to French furniture, but the biggest and bounciest collections are those of contemporary art. Fanciers of today's -and tomorrow's-painting, sculpture, kinetics and whole environments wade into galleries with eyes, minds and checkbooks wide open. As a tour of Chicago's top half-dozen dazzling collections shows, a new generation of collectors, many of whom are self-made millionaires, are brashly pitting their taste and understanding of today's baffling art trends against the judgment of the future and backing their hunches to the hilt. Nothing is too optical, poptical...
...President will take no action at all. This is a distinct possibility. Since last March, Johnson has studiously avoided personal involvement in the controversy. He has taken every opportunity to delay his decision, including asking the Defense Department for this new selection system after it had submitted a half-dozen. The draft is a delicate issue, and the President evidently prefers not to tangle with...
Junior Bill Diercks played a strong game in the nets for Harvard, gloving point-blank shots by Sheehy and Mike Flynn and kicking aside another half-dozen shots headed for the corners...
...opportunity to gorge themselves on goals and assists. Sophomore George McManama set a new Harvard scoring record for an Ivy game, racking up eight points on two goals and six assists. Both McManama and Jack Turco tied the Crimson record for assists in an Ivy contest, with a half-dozen apiece...
What followed has been a kind of underground happening. T Plays all kinds of music--rhythm and blues, oldie-goldies, jazz, raga-rock, and the new experimental psychdelic sounds. You can listen regularly for months and only hear a half-dozen songs you don't like. (Compare this to WBZ, where you must suffer through three dogs, five commercials and two contests to savor one good tune.) The music is supplemented by T's rambling jive-talk, interviews with underground figures (from George Reed, who is running for Caesar on the Christmas Party to Frank Zappa, leader of the Psyche...