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When shrimps learn to whistle, to borrow a proverb from Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet agriculture will provide enough food for Russia. Meanwhile, on an inspection tour of harvests in Central Asia, Khrushchev faced the perennial farm crisis all over again...
...last unsuccessful effort to avert a strike against the Chicago & North Western, the U.S.'s third biggest railroad in track mileage. When Goldberg and Wirtz got back to Washington, they hurriedly washed up to get ready for a joint press conference. Goldberg asked Wirtz if he wanted to borrow a clean shirt. "No thanks," cracked Wirtz. "I'd rather try on your shoes...
Gone with the Fins. Chrysler's famous flaring tail fins, which began shrinking last year, have given way almost completely to uncluttered, lightly chromed lines that Detroit likes to call "clean." Chrysler has not hesitated to borrow styling from its rivals and end up looking quite a bit like them. While lead times did not permit Townsend to completely redesign the PLYMOUTH and DODGE, they do look different from the '625, and the main change is a flat roof on each that closely resembles the top deck of Ford's racy Thunderbird. The compact VALIANT is chunkier...
Searching abroad to fill out his show, Milliken borrowed art from the Louvre, India, Japan and Taiwan. Altogether his catch amounted to 63 paintings, four pieces of sculpture, some goldsmith and enamel work, and a display of manuscripts from the Morgan Library. One of his regrets is that he failed to get a Velasquez, but he took his−chances. "In the museum where they had a Velasquez that I would have liked to borrow, they happened to have an El Greco which I felt was finer...
Milliken's Seattle exhibit, as he intended, does not represent a history of art: but in bringing together 72 works that would be hard or impossible to borrow for a lesser occasion, he has put on a show that is well worth an hour off from the geewhizzery of space and the girlie shows of the Gayway...