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...sole Progressive voice in the Assembly belongs to Economist Helen Suzman, 43, the wife of a Johannesburg heart specialist and mother of two grown daughters. A onetime United Party M.P. from suburban Johannesburg's sheerest silk stocking constituency. Politician Suzman broke away from the U.P. in 1959, will be the only member of the Assembly not committed to apartheid. "The difficulties of being alone in Parliament will be enormous," she says. "I won't even be able to move amendments as I shall have no seconder, but I shall do my best." She adds, perhaps too hopefully...
David Landon's work is uneven, but promising. Debutante, the most successful of his four poems, contains fresh imagery, such as: "a snicker of knives, like ripped silk," and avoids mistakes like: "the golden barbers of his soul." The latter comes from a piece of Landon's entitled Letter He Would Send To His Sweetie If He Were Chinese...
...this unique treasure in color four years ago, when TIME photographed the collection in Formosa. For the four pages of old scrolls shown this week, Art Director Michael J. Phillips sought a gloss-free paper that would bring out the delicate detail, the color and the appearance of the silk originals. In the end, he had the paper made to his specifications at the Mead Paper Co. in Kingsport, Tenn., and flew down to make sure of the quality. Engravings were made in New York by Len Perskie. Then Phillips was off to Detroit to oversee the reproduction...
...professors characterized the 22-year-old Makinen as "the most serious and hard-working young American we have seen in Berlin in a long time." Makinen spoke fluent German and Finnish (which he had learned from his family), took private lessons in Russian. Short, slight, with corn-silk blond hair cropped close, he was not a big hit with the girls at the university because, as one put it: "You always got the feeling that he would rather be alone...
Conductor Antal Dorati faced 17 musicians wearing 18th century breeches, periwigs and white silk hose. On a balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...