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...world economic situation has changed since the Trade Act was passed. Then it looked as if the Common Market, with its lower labor costs, would chop away U.S. world markets; instead, inflation is now racking most of the Six, while U.S. prices have remained relatively stable. Result: U.S. trade and payments balances are improving against the Common Market's, a fact that makes the Six all the more wary of dismantling their trade barriers...
...medieval alchemist's sign for stone. Today it is the trademark, or "chop," as printmakers call it, of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, a modern, scientific, and rather messianic attempt to revive the making of graphic art from stone. As the Los Angeles-based, nonprofit workshop prepared to print its chop last week on the 1,000th litho created there since its beginning four years ago, it seemed to mark the rebirth of an art form lately thought inferior to painting because of its duplication by mechanical means...
Direct as Oils. Seventy-two artists have come to Tamarind to see and conquer lithography. Lipchitz' only litho bears Tamarind's chop. Richard Diebenkorn, Antonio Frasconi, John Hult-berg, Henry Pearson, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, James McGarrell, Louise Nevelson, Rico Lebrun and Jose Luis Cuevas have done prints there...
Died. Edwin Hill ("Ted") Patrick, 62, editor of Holiday since 1946; of hepatitis; in Manhattan. Boulevardier Patrick, a onetime adman, took on Curtis' anemic travel magazine when it was four months old, made it into a glossy, coffee-table Baedeker, chronicling top-chop restaurants, countries on and off the tourist track, rich people and bizarre events, hired prestige contributors, boosted circulation (at 600 a copy) to 1,000,000 the day before he died, making it Curtis' only adult magazine in recent years to stay in the black...
...right then: Mary had a little lamb-chop. He tries it. No go. What a way to get rid of, to get rid of--She was just Seventeen...