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Europe last week seemed like Cassandra's backyard. Imminent and grave crisis was predicted over Berlin (see following story). Yet the relentless logic of the cold war suggested that while the danger was considerable, the Russians really had little room for maneuver if the West stood firm...
...catching the subtle whims of nature, and he could bathe the most or dinary scene in poetry. While more fashionable colleagues strained for panoramas -the vast valleys and rugged mountain chains of a newly self-conscious America -Inness was quite satisfied to paint whatever lay just beyond his own backyard. Last week the Paine Art Center, in Oshkosh, Wis., displayed 27 Inness paintings, a pleasant reminder of how much magic can be wrung from the gathering of a storm, the first nips of autumn, or simply the coming on of evening...
African art, admired in the U.S. and Europe as a rich creative tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for art's sake than a deadly serious business of magic, medicine, fetish and religion. To most white colonizers. African art has always been a mumbo-jumbo sort of thing, "proof" that the native African lacked cultural instincts...
...west as New Zealand, and it has made such a hit with listeners that KEWB hopes to hook up with a sister station in Los Angeles to give Jackson the entire West for an audience. Comedian Mort Sahl, who has rigged up a special antenna in his backyard in Los Angeles in order to receive Jackson, calls him "the all-night psychiatrist." Make Love Now. Jackson stays in business because his audience finds the program engrossing and totally unpredictable, but he also does his best to dispense free comfort and wisdom to both callers and listeners. His deep, mature, soothing...
Western European steelmen have already cut deeply into U.S. sales in other world markets. Since 1957, U.S. exports of tinplate have been slashed from 721,000 tons to 422,000 tons last year. Right in the U.S.'s backyard, a German consortium recently walked off with the $10.8 million contract to supply steel for the mile-long Balboa Bridge in Panama. Since every emerging nation wants its own steel mill as a status symbol, the competition for foreign markets is bound to get increasingly bitter. The Europeans, and the burgeoning Japanese steelmakers, can be expected to underbid their higher...