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...course he had. It was an impulsive gesture, in keeping with Lyndon Johnson's character, to fly to New Orleans in late afternoon for a personal inspection of the havoc wrought by Hurricane Betsy. Though he had had little to say about the Indo-Pakistani war, and had even extended a long Labor Day weekend at the ranch as it spread, the plight of an American city stirred the President to instant action...
Dark Conspiracies. Until the reforms take hold, Valencia is pleading with labor unions to "give the government a chance to repair the damage wrought by Congress and the last Cabinet." He is getting scant sympathy. More than 92,000 unpaid schoolteachers and clerks and 18,000 employees of Colombia's judiciary system were on strike last week, and 45 major unions have called a general strike for Oct. 1. Many Colombians are simply throwing up their hands. Eugenio GÓmez GÓmez, a member of Valencia's own party, flatly turned down the President...
...production is something else again. The charm and experimental spontaneity of A Hard Day's Night has here been replaced by highly professional, carefully calculated camera work and cutting, plus a story line made out of finely wrought jack-in-the-boxes...
...Benin was wrought to please the despotic king, or Oba, and nearly all the paper-thin plaques bear holes where nails attached them to the columns of his royal palace. Since wood rots, almost no pre-19th century African art remains save Benin's miraculous bronzes...
...made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold Henderson (former Nipponologist at Columbia University) has now dipped into Wheeler's collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly triumphs. But the Japanese joker is a special breed. A blend of Socrates and Till Eulenspiegel, he serves...