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4'C Sunday, Dec. 25, '66 DETROIT FREE PRESS ents tie i jr Caii: Ia Guess Top '66 Stories There is one Weary week left in 1966, a week dedicated somewhat ironically to peace and goodwill -ironical because the year has been one of violence and upset. Looking back over the last 12 months, Free Press editors have selected what they believe to. be the Top Ten local stories. From the pictures below, 'see if you can guess them.

At ome liSl ST If tni U.S., World City, State t. fcsfSS ill AP Photos Home town folks don't pry on Lucy They share this duplex with a college prof and his wife and the Secret Service 1 1 60-a-Monih Duplex Is Kept Private By John Barbour ap Newstearures writer to move out to make room for the Iff- 0 mY 111 i'iiU'iio'ii riiiii am iinm i rii hit 4 AUSTIN, Tex. There are seven Nugents in the Austin telephone book. But none of them are Pat and Luei Nugent. Their telephone is connected to the White House switchboard and this, as intended, insures that only the right people ring their way into the guarded world of Luci Nugent, nee Johnson.

There are three duplexes and three single homes in the pretty, secluded cul de sac called Heritage Way in hilly West Austin. Few sightseers come by anymore. There isn't much to see. The neighbors are reticent in de ference to the young couple who moved into 1101 last August. They stare back at the occasional wayward car that turns into the circle.

And they are friendly with the Secret Service men who stand constant guard in the inconspicuous guardroom in the car pr" port of the Nugent home. From that 8-by-10 foot cubicle, air- conditioned with a one-way glass panel facing front, the unseen agents keep watch on the periphery of the Nugent household. Three closed-circuit television cameras scan the sides and Inirnrinoiiiiiiinnr-'i VawrfirnH mii mi nniiiiimiir-miiiii liranm-Hiif Pat and Lucy shop, try to mingle unnoticed 6 the backyard. Before anyone can as much as knock on the front door, a Secret Service man is at his side with some rather specific questions. Secret Service when the Nugents moved in.

The Robertsons said firmly they were not moving out. They are still there. The Nugents' five-room apartmenr rents for about $160 a month. The Robertson side rents for about $175. The Robertsons have a fireplace.

The Nugents do not. Luci sometimes with Pat, sometimes with Betty Beal or another close friend, sometimes only with a Secret Service agent shops at one of two nearby supermarkets. The "first day" excitement is over. Still, even now, one shopping cart will nudge another, and one shopper will whisper, "there's Luci, but they pass, and life goes on. A UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS coed walks by the home economics building on her way to class.

"A couple of times, I've almost bumped into Luci," she says. "I'd like to say hello. Maybe I should. But I'm kind of scared to." Every Monday-Wednesday-Friday, Luci goes to a small auditorium in the home ec building for a course in the "Art and Appreciation of Furniture and Furnishings." It is her only class. Dr.

Anna Brightman, an associate professor, lectures for 50 minutes with lantern slides of antique and period furniture. Luci's presence in class came as a surprise. No one knew she was there until roll was called. One girl wondered what all of those well-dressed men were doing in class, all the more obvious because of the some 160 taking the course, almost all are girls. Now the class accepts without so much as a glance the lone Secret Service man who sits in the semi-darkness and occasionally has to loan Luci a ballpoint pen when she forgets to bring her own.

Even Luci is almost unnoticed, sitting in the front row center with two friends except when she asks a question in her soft, lisping voice, almost inaudible to classmates a few seats away. Friends say she gets her interest in furniture from her mother. THE FIRST LADY is known in Austin as "an organized shopper." She prowls through a furniture store with a stenographic notebook, swatches of fabric, samples of paint, and her Secret Service escort. She likes to shop and she has definite ideas of what she' wants. Friends say that most of the items in the Nugent home are furnishings bought by Luci's mother for other The Secret Service is there of course, for protection.

But that pro tection necessarily means privacy. J- Johnson family homes. Luci calls the style "early marriage." So far, Luci has bought little in the way of furniture. Mostly, her friends-' say, she's "still on a pink cloud." But Luci herself has admitted td some of the realities of married life. She's learned to be neater, she says, because she's the housekeeper now.

Besides, Pat is meticulous, and if she leaves something lying around, "he just stares at me until I pick it up." In public, the Nugents have learned to melt into a Saturday crowd at a. Texas football game, to ignore curious stares, and unwanted invitations. Almost unnoticed, Pat divides his day between a part-time job and graduate classes on the Texas campus. They don't go out much, and neighbors say, "mostly they're so quiet, we don't even know they're there." 7 fefe 1 -Sim iti IMUIM HI, hum 7 8 signments, to face family problems, and to design a future. Besides working for a master's degree, Pat is a part-time employe of WTBC, a radio and television station owned by the Johnson family's Texas Broadcasting Corp.

President Johnson's brother-in-law, O.P. Bobbitt, Is a top executive. Pat is in the station's executive training program. At the moment, he is the only one in the executive training program. The neighbors on Heritage Way see the Nugents seldom, mostly on their comings and goings.

They chajt with them on the street, or wave, and at least one says she misses them when they're gone "it's so dark down there." LUCI has searched for anonymity and privacy for some three years once renting a wig in Milwaukee to attend Pat's graduation and senior prom, once donning a trench coat to join unnoticed a public tour of the White House. But in Austin, those measures aren't necessary. Mostly, the Nugents stay in their small circle. And once, it was reported, Pat tried to pay by check for an afternoon of golf at a public course. They wouldn't take it because they didn't know who he was.

and privacy is something the President's youngest daughter wants in Austin. Luci Nugent's Austin helps insure it. She grew up here, still nurtures the close friendships that began at 1901 Dillman where the Johnsons lived when her father was a congressman, and continued at the White House and the Johnson ranch. It is a cozy, small, protective world. City Council member Louis B.

Shanks, who owns a large furniture store in Austin patronized by both the First Lady and Luci, recalls the hubbub in those early-married days whenever Luci appeared in public. "But things have settled down now," he says. "That's the way it is in Austin. After all, it's her home town I kind of like to think of her as one of the little neighborhood girls who grew up here." THE NUGENTS LIVE in a modern one-story, two-family home of western design. The other half is occupied by Mr.

and Mrs. David Robertson, a University of Texas law professor and his wife. There, was a strong rumor that the Robertsons would have i3t BEHIND that front door at 1101, there is privacy, shared with an affectionate White beagle named Kim and a mongrel someone left at a Johnson City service station and shared some evenings with a small group of friends. And there is time to write a dwindling list of "thank yous" for wedding gifts, to plug away at homework as LB? Kir 9 ART IN DETROIT --rTfC Our 'Psyche 9 and Toledo's 'Penelope iilnny mi mm mwumwii jjmini 10 BY CHARLES CULVER Free Press Art Critic Michigan's Mr. Robert Tannahill, scholar, gentleman, art-collector cum laude and all-round good fellow, has presented "Eros and Psyche," a painting by Nicollo dell Abatte (Italian, 1512-71) to the Detroit Institute of Arts.

This painting is reproduced in the Institute's latest bulletin. Also reproduced is "Ulysses and Penelope" by cesco Primaticcio (1504-70), acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, a gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, in 1964. The poses of the figures in both works are almost 4 Ml years older than Nicollo, so we may presume he was a practicing professional at, say, 20 years of age, when Nicollo was still a grubby boy of 12). In Primaticcio's work, Ulysses is chucking Penelope under the chin (which he had every right to do because he was married to her). Ulysses, you'll recall, returned to Penelope after a 10-year world tour, and upon reaching home he discovered a gaggle of local males snuffling around Penelope, suing for her person and property.

PENELOPE was virtuous. Se was do devoted to Ulysses that she kept her suitors at arm's length all during Ulysses' long absence (even though, between you and me, Ulysses played around plenty himself during his travels with Circe the Sorceress and other low types). Nicollo's Psyche, and Primaticcio's Penelope, both have lovely, classical-Greek profiles; but the expression in Penelope's eyes is one of wifely adoration for Ulysses. Psyche, on the other hand, looks like a shy maiden who is vaguely trouble, wonder- is strong, their figures contrasting with the deep-toned background. Eros and Psyche are more softly lighted and propped against their couch is a quiver (Eros, better known as "Cupid," had wings, and shot arrows into people, causing them to fall in love).

The background of Nicollo's picture has brightly-lighted draperies and a huge pillar. Psyche is shown as a delicate, uncertain virgin, and Eros is not up to dalliance perhaps too exhausted after a hard-day's archery to participate. One is fascinated with the similarities and differences between these two 16th-century masterpieces. Nicollo's "Eros and Psyche," though subdued in color, has remarkable luminosity; it exudes its subtle coloration like a fragrance. I'll wager this is a painting to which inveterate museum-visitors will return again and again.

I salute the generosity of Mr. Tannahill, and the good fortune of the Institute, in acquiring Nicollo dell Abat-te's Eros and Psyche." WAR IX VIETNAM dominated year's news. 2 CIVIL RIGHTS demonstrations continued, like Chicago march above. 3 GOP GAINS in oif-year election dimmed outlook for LBJ's Great Society. 4 CHINA-RUSSIA FEUD worsened as Red Guard led upheavals in China.

5 INFLATION brought protests like housewife pickets. 6 SPACE FEATS included spectacular close-up of moon, Gemini astrobatics. 7 NURSE LAYINGS claimed eight in Chicago, brought arrest of Richard Speck. 8 TEXAS MASS KILLING claimed 14 before Charles Whitman was killed atop U. of Texas tower.

9 JACKIE KENNEDY SUIT over JFK book upset nation. 10 FRANCE QUIT NATO as de Gaulle threatened Western alliance. l-BOMNEY SWEEP boosted presidential bid, helped Sen. Griffin beat Soapy Williams. 3 GRAND JURY PROBE brought "black-book" charges, split Police Dept.

3 RABBI ADLER SLAIN during bar mitzvah, with slayer a suicide. 4 TB EPIDEMIC hit 14 children in Garden City nursery, infected by teacher. 5 AUTO SAFETY LAW alarmed auto industry already hit by falling sales. 6 FREIGHTER SINKING in Lake Huron claimed 28 of 29 on Daniel J. Morrell.

7 RACIAL UNREST brought violence to East Side. 8 TEACHER STRIKES closed some suburban schools. 9 NORTHERN HIGH SCHOOL closed by boycott of dissatisfied Negro students. 10 FLYING OBJECTS, or "swamp gas," stirred up things. 'Eros and Psyche" by Niccolo del? Abbate, identical in drawing, but there are slight, important differences in expression.

Nicollo evidently based his painting Culver ing whether she should' yield to Eros' Importunities (would Mother disapprove She needn't have worried because Eros merely waves his hand around Psyche's chin but does not chuck it. Ulysses' eye is hot and humid as he regards his wife's beauty; but Eros seems only bemused, subdued, perhaps hung over, scarcely aware of Psyche's presence. The lighting of Ulysses and Penelope on the earlier work by Primaticcio (at least we know that Primaticcio was eight.