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There is little warmth, however, to relieve the glare of what God hath wrought on the great North American continent and what Ansel Adams hath done to drive it all home. The cumulative effect of the Fine Arts exhibit is somewhat akin to that of being dangled over a chasm for several hours. You admire it, but it scares hell...
...Paul Ylvisaker, 45, New Jersey's commissioner of community affairs, was busy last week trying to repair the damage wrought by the Newark and Plainfield riots-and ran into jeers of "Communist!" and "Nigger lover!" from some Northern rednecks when he restrained National Guardsmen from tearing apart one neighborhood in a search for arms. As a Ford Foundation director for twelve years, he distributed more than $200 million to city and state governments. Now, on the other end, he is attempting to show that states can play a vital role in uniting cities and suburbs. To take care...
...does not really include bananas, the greatest put-on yet wrought by hippiedom on straight society...
...Princefish." Probably the strangest aspect of the Dodd Affair was the havoc it wrought on the once-promising prospects of Russell Long. As chairman of the powerful Finance Committee and Senate Majority Whip, the "Princefish" (his father, the demagogic Huey, was the "Kingfish"), just a few short months ago had every reason to hope that he would follow Mike Mansfield as Majority Leader, perhaps even emerge one day as a vice-presidential candidate. But his wild rants and arrogant tactics in defense of Dodd-coming shortly after an equally bizarre defense of his discredited presidential-campaign financing bill-irrevocably alienated...
...district judge for Alabama's 23 southeastern counties. At 48, Johnson has established an impressive record of calm and considered judgment that has stamped him as one of the most important men in America. In 11½ years of inter- preting and enforcing the U.S. Constitution, he has wrought social and political changes that affect all of Alabama, all of the South, all of the nation...