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...Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner for the state's rising budget ($342 million in 1958). To Jerseyites, who pay no sales or personal-income taxes, Forbes's specter of reckless New Deal spending may be a big-mileage issue...
Premier Ali, at the head of a nondescript coalition government, stays tenuously in power only because of Sukarno's sufferance. The most powerful Moslem party in Ali's coalition called for his resignation, but the specter of open army revolt in Sumatra finally held a cabinet together: it might be disastrous to the young nation to let an army mutiny bring down a government...
...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
...schedules, switching from diesels to steam engines. Gasoline deliveries are down 20%, and the booming French Riviera tourist resorts are crying disaster; within a few days of the first gasoline restrictions, hotel occupancy dropped as much as 75% below normal. In Denmark and Spain there is also the glum specter of rationing, with fuel supplies down as much as 25%; Sweden and Switzerland have already banned pleasure driving on weekends...
...gain surface richness. What remains the same is Tamayo's distinctive approach, which can assault the senses with all the fury of a maddened cat, shift to grotesque satire, or acquire the quality of jagged hallucination as in his Phantasma (see cut') which depicts a phosphorescent feminine specter who seems perched uninvited on the window ledge. Closed in Mexico City last week. Tamayo's triumphant show will be seen next month at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries...