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...Happy, but there was one thing wrong: the voters had changed. His applause was coming from the familiar courthouse crowd who had long idolized him. But in Kentucky, which permits voting at 18, the electorate was shifting, and the old soft soap no longer washed well. Edward T. ("Ned") Breathitt Jr., 38, one of the rebels who had directed Combs's strategy, entered the Democratic primary against Chandler, matched him in folksy friendliness, and offered something more: a serious discussion of Kentucky finances, in which he claimed that education programs would suffer if the sales tax were cut back...
...Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...
...Monkey was inspired by a recent trip to Africa, but "in painting Africa I am certainly not ditching Australia. There are the same unfolding perspectives, vista upon vista. What I've done is to put the animal instead of the human in the landscape. The monkey seems, like Ned Kelly, to be a creature who has come out of the bush." In Explorer, Rocky Landscape, the protagonist looks as if he were attached, centaurlike, to his camel, as if the two were "united for survival." A century ago, explorers and traders introduced camels to Australia, and a few wild...
Fullback captain John Stevens and Bill Kerstetter have teamed with goalie Ned Bowditch to form an able defense. Stevens and Kerstetter never played fullback before coming to Harvard, but have had little trouble mastering this position...
...mimeographed announcement distributed last week to biology concentrators, Dr. Ned Feder, chairman of undergraduate affairs in the department, said that the purpose of the program "is to allow a member of the department and an individual student to carry out some course of instruction or discussion with the special, personal attention that is lacking in the larger and more formal courses." Tutors are to be members of the Faculty and post-doctoral fellows...