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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to finance imports, and responsible for keeping the Canadian dollar at a high $1.05½ in U.S. currency). Both Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Opposition Leader Lester Pearson, hopeful of more sales to Europe, urge Canada to take the lead in the promotion of a free-trade area among NATO nations...
Changed Scene. Outstanding among the young realists is 31-year-old John Bratby (TIME, March 12, 1956), who was called in to paint Gulley Jimson's big-footed canvases in the film version of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. "It's illogical and mad," Bratby confessed afterwards, "and springs from God knows where, but when the spotlight's on me, I feel enormously encouraged." Last week the spotlight was on Bratby again, with a show in London's Zwemmer Gallery of 28 new oils, turned out at a stupendous clip...
...best European drawing. Brought together to benefit Columbia University, and sponsored by President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth (who sent Signorelli's Hercules and Antaeus, and five other drawings from Windsor Castle), the show included 88 of the world's greatest. No one living could be sure which among them had the greatest claim to immortality. But the Altdorfer, Watteau and Goya drawings on the next four pages (all reproduced exactly full scale) would certainly be strong candidates...
...open season on culture in Manhattan used to begin with the first stroke of a Metropolitan Opera baton. But last week, with the Met season still a fortnight away, the town was jumping with cultural high jinks to satisfy almost any taste. Among the early season successes...
...retaliation against aggression, from a missile base that would be difficult to pinpoint and knock out; it might also be used against enemy satellites or spaceships. ¶Next day an Army solid-fuel Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile streaked across the skies above White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. Among the nation's warbirds, it is the most powerful (up to 500,000 lbs. thrust v. 400,000 Ibs. for the Atlas) and the fastest (more than 17,000 m.p.h.). At those speeds the Zeus encounters enormous heat and stress, and it broke up on its maiden flight...