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Utah. In a stark battle between out right liberal and unabashed conservative, Democratic Congressman David S. King appears to have an outside chance of ousting Senator Wallace F. Bennett...
...world with an affectionate eye: a stark interior he would somehow make snug; a winter street would lose its chill; and in his scores of landscapes-from his native Wisconsin to Giverny in France to Maine and Vermont-he never showed a storm or the sun as anything but gentle. Robinson may have been a minor figure, but his talent was genuine and warm. It was-as so many of his friends said about his laugh-infectious...
...Nick Jenkins is a small boy living in his father's country house at Stonehurst. The servants and the horses are in their quarters. The chef is good. All seems secure. There are no local portents of doom except a hysterical maid who appears to serve the mousse stark naked and is promptly whisked belowstairs in a Madras shawl...
...This stark conclusion was reached by five commission members appointed by Prime Minister Macmillan to examine a rising mortality rate in the British press. During almost two years of investigation, the commission, headed by Sir Hartley Shawcross, onetime Attorney General in the postwar Labor government, heard witnesses from both labor and management -although not all of the commission's summonses were obeyed. "We are regretfully forced to conclude," said the report, in noting that the paper workers' and lithographers' unions declined to cooperate with the inquiry, "that the real reason why each of them refused was fear...
Died. Louis Skidmore, 65, co-founder (with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Owings) of the U.S.'s most uncompromisingly modern architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which, beginning with Manhattan's Lever House, made stark glass-and-steel structures into the silhouette of U.S. business prestige; after a long illness; in Winter Haven, Fla. From the firm's start in 1936 until his retirement because of ill-health in 1955, dapper, Indiana-born "Skid" set his sights by Mies van der Rohe's hard-edged lines, attracted some of the nation's top architects into S.O.M...