Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love," wrote the Aga Khan in his autobiography three years ago, "that time for me has fled on too swift a wing." Last week swift-winged time came to an end for the legendary old Prince of Islam. In a quiet lakeside villa at Versoix, Switzerland, his huge bulk wasted to a mere 132 Ibs., His Highness Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III and spiritual leader of some 20 million Ismaili Moslems throughout the East, the Middle East and Africa, died...
...admitted Po, the value of Red China's industrial output will jump only 4.5% instead of the much-heralded 15%. Worse yet, "because China's agriculture is still lagging behind the needs of the people," exports of foodstuffs will be cut 22% this year. Since the bulk of China's capital goods is imported, and paid for with agricultural exports, this could have only one consequence. "In import plans," Po went on blandly, "major reductions have been made in the amount of general machinery and transport equipment, to provide incentive to our own machine-building industry...
...Expensive? If stereo is in for a boom, the industry is not agreed on when it will happen or how big it will be. Some experts see tapes sweeping disks out of the market in five years; some believe that disks will always account for the bulk of the industry's sales. Victor Chief Recording Engineer William Miltenburg argues that disks will stay necessary for popular music, if nothing else, because record buyers will be unwilling to pay stereo prices for the one-shot pop hits. This raises the question of how far stereo prices can be cut. Today...
...five authors of the report came from widely separated parts of the world and had been educated in profoundly different cultures, but they had one thing in common-they were all from what the U.N. calls "small nations": Australia, Ceylon, Denmark, Tunisia and Uruguay. The bulk of the work of preparing the report fell on the shoulders of Keith Shann, able young (39) Australian statistician-turned-diplomat, who on the day of publication flew back to his post as Australian Ambassador in Manila. To Shann's credit, he maintained a detached attitude in the presentation of fact and conclusions...
Home, at Last. When Gulbenkian died in 1955 in Lisbon, where he lived much of his last 13 years in a drearily decorated Hotel Aviz suite, he left the bulk of his estate and his entire art collection to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with instructions to build a Gulbenkian Museum. Last week foundation trustees announced that land had been bought in Lisbon, and that the museum would be completed in about three years...