Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countries were issued varicolored identifying arm bands. Trucks carried baggage. An ambulance corps was on hand to minister to blisters on the fourday hike. Mobile canteens provided tea and cakes at cost. Overnight the demonstrators slept in rented schoolrooms, man and maid often bedded down side by side on bare floors...
Though he insisted that he was primarily "a painter of history," he was at his best when painting the individual. His portraits were the work of a man who could lay bare the heart of another. His women bathers, as Baudelaire observed, were painted "with the ardor of a lover." They were creatures from a far-off world, and however dimly lit their flesh or well-ordered their surroundings, they told much about their creator...
...invested a total of $348,800.000 in the four media in 1960, a bare 1% increase over 1959. There was only minor reshuffling among the top ten: American Home Products (Equanil, Anacin, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Foods) and General Mills (Wheaties, Bisquick, Betty Crocker baking mixes) each advanced two notches; Lever Brothers and Ford fell back...
Medicine for 400,000. Seagrave's main hospital building is a substantial stone structure which he helped build with his bare hands to show native laborers that Americans do not consider manual work demeaning. The other buildings are of flimsier native construction. Thanks mainly to a U.S. support group, American Medical Center for Burma, Inc., which raises funds, and to drug manufacturers who donate supplies, Dr. Seagrave is able to practice and supervise good medical care for a population of border tribesmen totaling some 400,000. He fills 250 beds and 50 mats with about 2,500 admissions...
...20th century. For the first time, France is borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking photograph: Pablo Picasso, bare to the waist and bronzed, with a flower behind his ear, the eternal...