Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the past two years, Scovill has been expanding through acquisitions of companies in housing and home building. It thereby hopes to escape overdependence on brass-mill earnings, which accounted for some 55% of company sales in the early 1960s. In 1967 Scovill bought NuTone Inc., maker of built-in home products. This year it added Caradco, the second largest window-frame producer in the U.S. For an even better balance, Scovill firmly intends to bring down the share of brass to 20% of total sales through future acquisitions...
Second in size only to American Express and serving 10 million travelers a year through 420 offices around the world, Cook's saw its profits dawdle along during the early 1960s and by last year they were down to a mere $2.2 million on a turnover of $378 million. At least part of this sluggishness can be ascribed to the heavy hand of the British government, which has owned the company since 1948. Tory pressure is already building up in Parliament to return Cook's to private ownership...
...Provence village of Bargème is scented by lavender from the nearby Alpine foothills, and its pastures are dotted with herds of grazing sheep. At the start of the 1960s, it was smaller (pop. 65) and, if anything, more charmingly bucolic than it had been in the Middle Ages. The few visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria...
...never been one to charm and bedevil the public as have his fellow Spaniards Dali and Picasso. As one of the earliest and most abstract of all the surrealists, Miró was already a near-legendary figure among his fellow painters by the 1930s. But even in the 1960s, there are still critics who argue that his art is too shallow, too cheerful, too clever and, above all, too personal and too eclectic to rank as truly great...
...1960s, Miró has also turned to huge bronze totems, cast in molds made from found objects, that brood like so many legendary rocs amid the gardens of the Maeght Foundation. One of his most recent sculptures is the massive marble Moonbird, who, in Miró's language, is meant to suggest not only moon and bird but also woman. Moonbird summons up half-forgotten racial memories of fertility-cult objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very...