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...Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American history ends 20 months from now.* Flanked by his parents, Wife Beryl Ann, 53, and three children-Lloyd III, 30, Lan, 27, and Tina, 23-Bentsen told some 1,800 cheering supporters that he would bring his 26 years of political and business experience to the restoration "of an economic system which provides diversity of opportunity for earning a living and gives meaning to the dream of individual independence...
...believe that one could extract "essences" from nature-shapes that symbolized different kinds of force, growth and élan vital, and that constituted the inner structure of reality. This belief, which owed as much to Mme. Blavatsky and her ilk as to Henri Bergson, was common among early abstract artists. Its embodiment, for Dove, was in works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent...
...what it could to make life for Allende uncomfortable, mostly through financial pressure on institutions like the World Bank. In August 1971, as a result of U.S. complaints that debt-laden Chile was a poor credit risk, the Export-Import Bank refused to make a $21 million loan to Lan-Chile airline to enable it to buy three Boeing jets, even though the airline had a perfect repayment record. U.S. exports to Chile overall declined 50% during Allende's three years...
Despite the significance of the elections, there was a curious lack of excitement last week on the hustings. The pro-Socialist Paris weekly Nouvel Observateur commented on how different was the West German election last fall that returned Chancellor Willy Brandt to power. "Over there one felt the élan in the air. One felt that the entire population was intensely concerned with the choice before them...
...been flown in by BOAC. Director Michael Rudman has elicited ensemble acting from this group that rates close to perfect. As for the Long Wharfs artistic director Arvin Brown, he knows viscerally what is good in drama, and season after season he presents it with honesty, professionalism and élan vital. Lincoln Center should beg, borrow or skyjack...