Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...customers snapped them up. The act, designed to outlaw brothels and subject pimps to severe punishments, was passed in 1956; but Parliament delayed enforcement so that India's prostitutes could find other ways to make a living and state governments would have time (though few bothered) to build "rehabilitation homes." Last week, just after the law finally went into effect, every red-light district in the nation buzzed with indignant schemes for getting around...
...than they do the public. Between them, Columbia Artists Management, the National Artists Corporation and Impresario Sol Hurok control 90% of the soloists and instrumental groups touring the country. To the beginning artist, the Big Three offer irresistible bait: a chance to tour the country for pay and to build a reputation. But the reputations are built in New York, and the pay, when fees and traveling expenses are deducted, usually amounts to only several hundred dollars. An artist caught in the community-concert treadmill usually deserts the field after a few years or is nudged out by management...
...museums. He originated a score of important shows, most recently the exhibition of paintings by Pointillist Georges Seurat that was threatened by fire last month while on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (bringing Rich to New York within six hours). By encouraging his curators to build up the museum's print, decorative arts and Oriental collections, by starting a photography section and by "sneaking in" a new department of primitive art, Rich has kept the Art Institute growing. But in the end he found himself overwhelmed by administrative detail that "was taking me far away...
...hard in 1955's 7,200,000-car year, and borrowed too heavily from this year's market. They also feel that they made it easy to postpone getting a new car by producing cars more durable than ever. Since World War II, engineers have learned to build engines that run twice as long without an overhaul; brakes have twice the stopping power and twice (40,000 miles) the life; lights, springs, tires, steering, seats and upholstery are all vastly better. "It has become fashionable not to buy a car," says a G.M. salesman with some bitterness. "Then...
...representative of the George A. Fuller Company, contracted to build the new House, refused to comment last night on the union's action and whether it would affect the construction work. Construction of Quincy House was stopped for a three-week period at the start of April by a strike of laborers and hod-carriers...