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...Washington, the Senate subcommittee that has been investigating the election issued a preliminary report. By a 2-1 vote, it recommended that 30,000 ballots be declared void. Wyoming's Republican Senator Frank Barrett, subcommittee chairman, and Michigan Republican Charles E. Potter agreed that the secrecy of the ballot had been "flagrantly violated." Some districts had failed to provide separate voting compartments, as required by New Mexico law. Dissenting, Missouri Democrat Thomas C. Hennings argued that the violation of law was a technical one that had long been accepted in New Mexico, and does not constitute fraud...
Bacon approaches his subjects in the grand manner; he isolates each one, gives it lots of room in a big canvas and paints it with virtuoso brilliance and economy. Perhaps his chief distinction is that he captures in painting the quality of disembodied urgency, of pain writhing in a void, that is peculiar to many news pictures of violent death (for source material, Bacon collects old newspaper photographs, preferably of crimes and accidents). Bacon has a trick of veiling faces with a wispy scumble of paint that creates an illusion of motion, like a photograph in which the subject moved...
...hastily abandoned car, a vaguely phrased intention to visit a friend, a reassuring but phony telegram from out of the void-these were the nebulous clues left behind by British Diplomat Donald MacLean and his Foreign Office colleague, Guy Burgess, when they disappeared off the face of the free world more than two years ago. Last week, leaving behind an almost identical set of clues, still more MacLeans disappeared: Donald's attractive, Chicago-born wife Melinda and the three MacLean children...
...limit put upon the treaty power by the Supreme Court is that a treaty may not "authorize what the Constitution forbids." Even that limitation has been questioned. A circuit court of appeals declared: "It is doubtful if the courts have power to declare the plain terms of a treaty void and unenforceable...
...make peace with Bishop Otto Dibelius and the Evangelical Church, to which most of East Germany's 18 million people belong. In a formal pact, the Communists agreed to end persecution of church leaders and youth groups, to void or review jail terms handed out to about 20 pastors. Among other things, the Communists promised to recognize the church's right of free assembly, pay state subsidies to churches, return confiscated church property, and work out plans to restore religious lessons to Soviet zone classrooms...