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...been plagued by physical injuries. His right knee is shot, his right shoulder is weak, he has had innumerable pulled, torn and twisted muscles. The knee bothers him most; before every game, he binds his right leg from ankle to thigh. "The knee will never be right again," says Mantle. "It always feels like it will go out." Says a rival American League manager: "When he swings, it looks like someone is sticking needles into that...
...wave scours the nation's rubbish heaps, junk piles and beaches to find its materials, for the ingredients of art are supposed to lie anywhere, if only the eye is gifted enough to see. One artist found himself well supplied with old beams when his house was torn down. A favorite smock that has become too worn to wear can be dipped in glue and hurled against a door, and a generous helping of red paint mixed with bucket, cans and surgical gauze produces a grizzly montage called Capt Canaveral. But the show also has surprises of another sort...
Will all this last? Critics can for once be definite. Whatever their artistic merits, "paintings" made out of coffee grounds, torn nylons and bits of paper are automatically stamped-PERISHABLE...
...story about South's creative-writing and English teacher, Harold Keables. Your description was so lifelike that I felt myself transported back over 13 years. His teaching has instilled a lifelong self-criticism of every word I write with the exception of my grocery list. I am torn between adding to the well-deserved tributes you will surely receive from Mr. Keables' former students and the fear that this letter will be published containing some terrible grammatical error. WILLA BEE ROBBINS HOLMES ('47) Aurora, Colo...
...week, De Gaulle's orders were strict: the French army was to put no pressure on Moslem voters; civilians were to run the polls and, where possible, the transportation to them. Last week De Gaulle had one result he was after: the first honest political profile of revolt-torn Algeria...