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...included large industrial concerns as well as producers of fertilizer and farm machinery. Among the fair visitors was U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, who also toured a Breton farm and then dropped by the local Franco-American institute to open an exhibition of works by five American painters (Lester Johnson, Harry Nadler, Robert Natkin, Frank Roth, William Wiley). Looking over the abstract canvases, Shriver cracked: "Every year brings artistic upheavals?and sometimes other kinds of upheavals too." If farms are becoming large, business is becoming still larger. French corporations are swiftly reorganizing their methods and management along American lines...
...away from the track." Tuesdee Testa, 27, the wife of a stable foreman and the mother of a two-year-old daughter, won at Santa Anita in her second race. She has also been initiated into the perils of her new trade: at Aqueduct two weeks ago, Jockey Willie Lester cut her off out of the gate, an unchivalrous act that caused Tuesdee to finish eighth and earned Willie a ten-day suspension. Sandy Schleiffers, 22, a 4-ft, 11-in., 98-lb. package of determination, learned her trade racing quarter horses at bush tracks. She wears no makeup...
Their music was pure "bluegrass," with Lester Flatt fingerin' away on the guitar and Earl Scruggs handling the five-string banjo. For 21 years they toured the country-music circuit, had their own radio show, and were rediscovered by pop America for their background music that was very much in the foreground of Bonnie and Clyde. Now Flatt, 54, and Scruggs, 45, have announced they are breaking up the act. Just why, they would not say. Friends report that the two have never been close, and now that both are well off financially, they see no reason to stick...
...meeting of this section on Monday, from one to three o'clock in the Brooks Parlor, Phillips Brooks House. Gary Welch Rod Rouzer Duncan McCrann Matthew Naitone W. David McCollum Thomas LaFarge Marshall Mittnick Jon Stolzenberg Judy Kauffman Brook Baker Susan Nichols Cleveland Bigelow III Amy Brodky Sylvia Lester Ted Rumsey
...GOVERNOR LESTER MADDOX of Georgia, during his short-lived presidential candidacy last year, identified the most critical problem facing the nation as the need to build more highways. As on several other issues, Maddox was more than a few years behind the times. Fortunately the governor has gone back to Georgia, but indications are that the men now in charge of the nation's transportation system share at least some of his views...