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...Dutch art movement, whose standard-bearer was Piet Mondrian, made more than rules for good design. It was a heavily Platonic philosophy of art, carried out in mighty Pythagorean paintings, that saw pure beauty as the universal means of reaching Utopia. Wrote Mondrian: "Abstract art is opposed to the raw primitive animal nature of man, but it is one with true human nature...
What then of the pledge inscribed on some 95% of all U.S. dollar bills: This certifies that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America one dollar in silver payable to the bearer on demand? From now on, said Dillon, silver certificates will be redeemed at the U.S. Assay Offices in New York City or San Francisco with envelopes containing exactly 0.77 of a "fine troy" ounce of silver crystals, worth a dollar at the official monetary rate for silver: $1.29 per oz. Collectors will be hard put to trade up their value -they will...
...second Yalie NCAA standard-bearer, Mike Austin, was upset in the 100-yard freestyle by Bill Stuek of Colgate, whose 47.5 timing was 0.4 too fast for the Eli sprinter...
...late 1800s, long lines formed outside saloons all over New York City. But the queuers were not thirsty; they were there to be naturalized, a process that Irish-controlled Tammany Hall had made easy. Inside the saloon, everybody was handed a red card stating: "Please naturalize the bearer." Card in hand, the bearer went to court, where Tammany judges naturalized as many as 150 at a time. Tests were unheard...
...goods and services) rose $30 billion, to over $600 billion; per capita personal income reached $2,500, up $300 in three years; U.S. corporate profits totaled more than $50 billion ($25 billion after taxes), and civilian employment went above 70 million for the first time. Heller also was the bearer of not-so-glad tidings: unemployment last year remained in excess of 4,000,000 persons-a persistent 5% to 6% of the labor force. This, Heller told the President, was his Administration's "principal challenge...