Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time that Marc Chagall "sat" for this week's cover story was at lunch with a group of editors in a dining room on the 47th floor of the TIME and LIFE Building. The artist was enchanted with the view of Manhattan, particularly the bright mosaics of neatly parked automobiles on the roofs below. "Très Chagall," he said, and wished he could paint them right then and there. Instead he ultimately agreed to do a self-portrait for the cover...
...tacked a "super-profits" tax ranging from 50% to 60% on top of what was left after an existing 50% corporate levy. If there was anything India's staggering economy did not need, it was new shackles. The country's third five year plan, now in its 47th month has failed so badly that food output has not kept pace with population growth Unemployment is soaring, and per-capita income has failed to gain for three years. To bolster the economy, India is wooing private foreign capital, but this effort, too, has run afoul of high taxes India...
...reorganization of NATO itself. In Berlin, the Russians set off a small dispute about commercial airlines' use of air corridors over East Germany. And in Moscow, the new Soviet regime gave a warm welcome to Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai when he arrived to help celebrate the 47th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution (see cover story in THE WORLD...
When Red China's Premier accepted Moscow's invitation to the 47th anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, it became obvious that Communism's two big powers are trying to ease their unseemly, downright embarrassing differences, which had become something of a personal obsession to Khrushchev. There is no likelihood that the split will be healed in the foreseeable future, but it will obviously not remain the same. With Chou's arrival in Moscow alongside delegations from every Communist nation in the world except Albania (which is being more Chinese than the Chinese), the post-Khrushchev...
...year's biggest, brightest holiday, the 47th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, was at hand, but somehow the holiday mood refused to ignite...