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...Charles Burchfield saw it, any landscape painter worthy of the name had to take his nature raw. "You cannot experience a landscape until you have known all its discomforts," he said. "You have to curse, fight mosquitoes, fall over rocks and skin your knees, be stung by nettles, scratched by grasshopper grass and pricked by brambles before you have really experienced the world of nature." He braved winter winds and rainstorms to sketch outdoors. One March day, inspired by a "glorious thaw," he trudged out to a nearby woods and had hardly set up his easel when a thunderstorm came...
...might do well to curb. Budge spoke out strongly in favor of proposed legislation to create a federal insurance corporation for brokerages along the lines of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for banks. Congress seems eager to set up something of the sort to prevent investors from getting stung if their brokerage houses go over the brink. Thus, for all the pain it has caused, the long bear market may lead to new rules to protect the investor, and establish a stronger and better-run brokerage business...
...look into the incident. The Justice Department dispatched federal investigators to Jackson, and Attorney General John Mitchell said he would go there personally. At week's end the tense campus had been vacated by state police and was being patrolled by city police and the National Guard. Stung by criticism of trigger-happy Guard action at Kent State, patrolling Guard officers in Jackson announced that none of their weapons were loaded...
...Trail. In southern Laos, North Vietnamese regulars two weeks ago overran Attopeu, a town on a Mekong River tributary called the Se Kong; last week they menaced Saravane, another strategically located town. Along the Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent a full regiment against Kompong Cham, Cambodia's third largest city, only 50 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh...
...informal alliance between Saigon and Phnom-Penh has not tempered the bitter hostilities that have divided Cambodians and Vietnamese for centuries. Stung by the recent atrocities inflicted on the 500,000 ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia, the Saigon government has launched an effort to evacuate some of its vulnerable kinsmen. TIME Correspondent James Willwerth was aboard the Vung Tau, the lead LST in a fleet of 20 ships and small craft that last week carried 10,000 "refugees from their detention camps in Phnom-Penh 80 miles down the Mekong River to safety. His report...