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...insist on including large numbers of unimaginative realists while neglecting some of the bolder reaches of modern art. And at the same time, the Festival's system of judging (a painting requires the approval of only one of the five judges to be included in the show) increases the likelihood that much undistinguished art will be displayed...
Buyers, devil-may-care in the showroom, found store owners back home far from bold, and plenty worried. Hess's Department Store, in Allentown, Pa., faced picket lines of women (WE DRAW THE LINE, read the placards), was stuck with a shipment and the likelihood of few, if any, sales. Manhattan's Lord & Taylor changed its mind even before the suits arrived. "They will be sealed up immediately," said the store's president, Melvin Dawley, "and shipped to the poor." More sophisticated Western ladies snapped up models available in San Francisco stores and over the warnings...
...Washington, U.S. intelligence sources quickly denied any new undercover campaign against Castro. The U.S., said a spokesman, has not slipped arms into Cuba since just before the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961. Castro may have uncovered one of those old caches. But the greater likelihood was that he had found it long ago, and had just now decided to make an issue...
...Majority Leader Stanley Thayer, a Romney loyalist, was a "secret diabolical move." Fuming with anger, Romney accused the dissident Republicans of a sellout, but ironically, he may have to sign the bill into law if it passes the lower house. If he does not sign it, Michigan in all likelihood will have to elect its congressional representatives at large. And if that should happen, there is the possibility that Democrats would take even more seats than in a district-by-district vote...
Evaluating the likelihood that U.N. mediation would produce an acceptable solution to the Cyprus crisis, Sir Patrick said that he was "hopeful" that Sakari S. Tuomioja of Finland, the U.N. mediator, would offer some solid suggestions "in six or seven weeks...