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...head-on between them. But all the planes on display and the superb acrobatics could not hide the fact that Britain's aircraft industry is losing altitude fast. Even the empire-loving London Daily Express warned its readers not to be "fooled" by "the Farnborough façade...
...titled London Morning. The 32-minute work was commissioned by Britain's Festival Ballet and was suggested to him, said Coward solemnly, by the nursery jingle, "Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?" To a tinkly, tearoom blend of Coward tunes, the curtain rose on a fantasticated façade of Buckingham Palace, at which an ice-cream-suited American was directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts, and two wing-hatted nuns danced onstage to gawk at the bearskinned sentries. A school girl got her head stuck between a sentry...
Temporary Façade? Many thought that Adenauer's new façade of unity had a very temporary look. Before the week was out, he and Erhard were bickering in public again-this time over whether Adenauer had or had not warned the Cabinet that he might change his plans and remain in the chancellorship (he had once said he was "90% sure" that he would stay). But Erhard seemed to have no stomach for a direct challenge to the old man. "I am not looking backward, but forward," he said...
Making a Profit. Physically, both papers resemble U.S. newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
...Heir Huntington Hartford Jr., a ten-story concrete structure that will sit on an island in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Turning his back on the glass-brick walls he used for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Stone has designed a monumental façade of white marble, enriched by porphyry and verd antique marble medallions over the columns of the arcade. Admits Stone: "The resemblance to Venice, the Ca' d'Oro and Doges Palace, is probably unmistakable...