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...uneasy public feeling that some of contemporary art just has to be a put-on is not without reason, as the artists themselves point out. Says Los Angeles Sculptor Edward Keinholz, whose own "environments" of Nevada brothels and backstairs abortion rooms have raised plenty of eyebrows: "In a culture as rich as ours, art gets bastardized. Pop artists had a keen thing going until they let the dealers in. As a result, the span of life for pop art has been cut in half." With hundreds of sec ond-rate artists now trying to cash in, Millionaire Collector John Powers...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, 62, were being hustled off to the pokey-and in Las Vegas yet. Well, not quite. The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Arthur Michael Ramsey, stopping off for a day en route to an Episcopal conference in Seattle, was merely getting a V.I.P.'s reception, Nevada-style. His Grace drew a crowd of 8,000 businessmen, politicians and highrollers to the Convention Center for a talk on Christian unity. Las Vegas responded with a luncheon for 600, at which the Archbishop was observed guffawing at Comedian Danny Thomas. "Some of the jokes I understood," said...
...scured the fact that Howard Hughes, 61, has quietly been making news of his own. Picking up properties around Las Vegas, he has, in addition to the Sands and Desert Inn, bought Alamo Airways and the Krupp ranch in Red Rock Canyon. Hughes already owned 30,000 acres of Nevada land...
...intensive interest in Las Vegas? Primarily, it is because Nevada has no income tax-a natural draw to Hughes, whose net worth is over a billion. As to his plans, a clue came when Hughes Aide Robert Maheu carried a statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. It was Hughes's first utterance for publication in seven years. "I have," said Hughes, "heard of plans to enlarge Las Vegas' McCarran Field." Instead, Hughes suggested, it might be a good idea to build a new airport far ther from town. Then Las Vegas might "just barely turn...
...secretary of the New York City Bar Association's matrimonial-law committee, does not think that the new statute will affect Mexican divorces. "Juarez has no domicile requirement," he explains. "So the section is actually irrelevant." It will not even have any force against quickie-divorce states like Nevada, contends Mrs. Stanley Kooper, another lawyer. "The U.S. Constitution says you have to give full faith and credit to other states," she points out. "That goes for any law, including divorce laws...