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There are some individuals who pursue only unattainable girls, worship the New York Mets, and root for the Indians to clobber the cowboys; upon such a masochistic foundation was built the personality of the fan who rooted for the basketball team and blithely ignored the myriad of successful Harvard winter sports teams...
...economic counsel in the past has come from fairly conservative businessmen and advisers. Among them: Robert Anderson, a Texan who was Dwight Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary and is now a limited partner of Wall Street's Loeb, Rhoades; George Brown, president of Houston's Brown & Root, one of the world's largest building contractors; and Manhattan's Edwin Weisl, a wealthy corporate lawyer and Johnson's campaign co-manager in his 1960 bid for the presidency. Such men will doubtless have their say, but so will Walter Heller, whose personal memos kept Johnson informed...
...Communists' desperate hope is to provoke Venezuela's powerful military into a coup, canceling the elections. So far, at least, the soldiers have kept both their temper and their loyalty to Betancourt. Acting on presidential orders, small squads of troops moved into the city to root out F.A.L.N. snipers; police details prodded merchants into raising their shutters, and security agents rounded up every leftist they could find. By week's end more than 200 were in prison; 25 people were dead, another 90 wounded...
...root of the controversy is the extreme sensitivity of Reform Jews to criticisms by Orthodox Jews that Reform Judaism is just a steppingstone to Christianity. But Eisendrath denied he had any such trade-off in mind, nor would his re-examination relate to anything more than "the man Jesus, not to Christ, his Messiah-ship...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, pear wood, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...