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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became ten feet tall, with brains to match. Since then, U.S. scientists have flocked to Russia and under the rules of the current thaw, have seen things that no Westerner had ever seen before. Interviewing the returnees produced a calm, post-panic assessment of just how good (and how backward) Russia's science is. See SCIENCE, Scouting the Russians...
...symbolic than revolutionary, for the DLF's annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched off editorials that the U.S. was moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand in the name of free trade...
Beware of Death. But Clyfford Still, 54, pushed on into abstraction with never a backward look. He treats art as an apocalyptic vision, refuses to let visitors (even buyers) inside his door, recently turned down the offer of a one-man show at Venice's Biennale because of his professed fear that it would be misinterpreted as catering to "the praise of Vanity Fair." "A painting in the wrong hands is a highly dangerous force," Still hints darkly, "just like a mathematical equation...
...edifice, said John C. Snyder, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, will "greatly strengthen the objectives of the School." The school aims at prevention and control of diseases of two kinds among population groups: those emerging in urbanized and technologically advanced groups, and those afflicting backward civilizations...
...great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome 92 ft. above the ground. Paintings were to be tilted backward, "as on the artist's easel"; lighting would come from skylights above the ramp and would be reflected downward by louvers. "The net result of such construction is greater repose," Wright declared, "an atmosphere of the unbroken wave-no meeting of the eye with angular or abrupt changes of form...