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Since Time magazine helped round up this exhibit, there are three examples of its cover portraits. On a light blue background, Bernard Buffet showed us a lined and ascetic Charles de Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos on green and red, as seen through a white Milky Way, Andrew Wyeth did a vapid semi-profile of Dwight Eisenhower that reflects the subject more closely than the painter realized...
...University's Eliot House crew was defeated in the semi-finals of the Thames Challenge Cup race of the Royal Henley Regatta last Saturday...
...ordering and in the urgent revising of our forms of worship." In 1928 the House of Commons rejected the established church's request for permission to make changes in its liturgy in order to enforce more liturgical discipline upon clerics whose services ranged from quasi-Roman to semi-Congregational, according to taste. The new Archbishop implied that if the request were turned down again, it might lead to disestablishment. "If the link of the church and state were broken," he said, "it would not be we who ask for freedom who broke it, but those-if there be such...
...miscellaneous failings of television was Playwright Gore Vidal, who began on the familiar subject of TV taboos: "You can't discuss divorce or suicide, but sadism and murder are O.K." Vidal was the only witness to extend his indictment to public affairs shows, TV's one semi-sacred cow. There are "no controversial commentators any more," he pointed out. "Now you have these homogenized newscasters, men with no edges." He concluded: "Advertisers should not have the power to control TV. Let's face it, commercials not only are the best quality things shown over TV because...
...gross national product that would skip from the current rate of $512 billion to $530 billion by this year's final quarter and to $570 billion at the end of 1962-perhaps even generating enough profits and tax revenues for a tax cut next year. In its semi-annual forecast out this week, FORTUNE reached much the same conclusions. It predicted that by Christmas of 1962 the U.S. will see a $575 billion G.N.P. and a near-record 25% jump from the recession low in the Federal Reserve Board's Industrial Production Index. Suggesting that unemployment may well...