Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Averell Harriman for massive credits* to buy modern petrochemical plants, which would expand the industrial complex already in operation near Ploesti. The Rumanians also urged increased contacts with the U.S. in academic, diplomatic, technical and cultural fields...
...huge, enigmatic abstract slabs of saturated oil are widely sought after, but Clyfford Still, 60, is pretty picky about who gets them. "A painting in the wrong hands," he says, "is a highly dangerous force, like an equation." He tells about a young man who wanted to buy several of his works and asked, "Mr. Still, what are you trying to say?" Still answered: "You want an epigram, don't you?" The young man nodded. "So I threw him out," said Still...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art had to wait two years to buy a Still. But Buffalo's burgeoning Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a museum to Still's taste. He admired Director Gordon Smith's willingness in 1959 to show 72 Still paintings all at once, because Still believes that he cannot be under stood properly in small doses. Last week he gave 31 paintings (estimated value: more than $1,000,000) to the Albright-Knox, possibly an alltime record for an artist's generosity...
...some basic necessities. Faculty salary ceilings will be raised from $6,500 to $8,000, to slow down a high turnover rate. The library will be expanded beyond its meager list of 33,000 titles. Brown's share of the job will be to supply what money cannot buy: higher academic standards...
...Plus Three. That may take some doing. Weatherly is resting peacefully in a Connecticut boatyard, and Bus Mosbacher is busy in Manhattan minding his oil investment business. "I've had it," he says. "Never again-though I might buy a powerboat to watch the races." But the U.S. is hardly begging for Cup defenders. Last week a spanking new U.S. twelve went down the ways; a second new twelve was launched the week before, and three veteran boats were fitting out to compete for the honor of defending the "auld...