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...Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Every few minutes, up to eight times an hour, reverence for the nation's shrines had somehow to be combined with the bread-and-butter necessity of working in commercials. Home solved the problem by moving Arlene in front of a plain backdrop whenever it was time to deliver the hard sell, and she switched effortlessly from the wonders of Washington to the durability of Latex paint or the tastiness of Star-Kist tuna...
...many ways the ten years following Reed's death proved a decade of insanity. Prosperity was the backdrop both for obsessions with baubles and scientific progress. It was a decade of protest and agitation: against God and for lipstick; against long skirts and for bobbed hair. Later years have called this the "Lost Generation." In spite of its aims, its main distinction seemed to be aimlessness. Its members tossed off old values and traditions, but they went no place. This was a class of revolutionaries without an excuse for a revolution...
...written The Crime of Galileo, a masterly intellectual whodunit which traces not the life but the mental footsteps of Galileo on his road to personal tragedy. Brilliant, but rarefied, the book will appeal especially to those who like to watch a drama of ideas played out against the baroque backdrop of 17th century Italian intrigue...
...Backdrop for Stars. Hialeah was built by a man who has long served Florida's spiritual needs rather than its sporting habits. Church Architect Lester W. Geisler (he designed the million-dollar First Presbyterian Church on Miami's Brickell Avenue and the 18-acre, cruciform drive-in Pasadena Community Church at St. Petersburg). At Hialeah, a dignified formal park stretches to the $2.5 million clubhouse. Not until he rides in an escalator into a profusion of bars, restaurants and pari-mutuel windows does the visitor get a glimpse of the track itself, which is framed by hedges...
This week Hialeah's landscape will be a backdrop for another drama: the second of the meeting's two biggest races: $100,000 Flamingo Stakes. The top stars: William Woodward's noble bay colt, Nashua, and Boston Doge, a dark bay sprinter owned by Paul Andolino, a Boston livery-stable operator...