Word: climaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world today is Britain's James Gunn, 60. As the nation's top society portraitist, he earns more than $50,000 a year painting such famous names and faces as Field Marshal Montgomery, the Duke of Edinburgh, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich. Last week Gunn reached a climax of his career when his official state portrait of Queen Elizabeth took the place of honor at the new Royal Academy exhibition in London...
...underway, but instead is followed through down to the last guilt complex. The audience is shown a sodium amytal treatment, a flashback to the patient's youth ("You see, his father and mother quarrelled..."), the patient falling in love with his beautiful young psycho-analyst, and, as a grand climax, the paient curing the psycho-analyst, of her psychosis...
...soloists brought the concert to an exciting climax. Jay Powers '56 performed Glazounov's Saxophone Concerto, a work whose chief merit is that it allowed Mr. Powers to prove the amazing finesse with which his instrument can be handled. Such a delicate treatment of the instrument seems to indicate the inherently limited compass of its tonal range. But the novel beauty of the effects produced and Mr. Powers dazzling agility banished any hint of monotony...
Payoff. With the help of the jet age, hustling President Bunker has managed to turn moly into a bonanza. When Bunker, who is considered one of the top U.S. authorities on raw materials, took over Climax in 1949, the company owned North America's biggest known supply of the metal, in Colorado, but had few buyers. Bunker, 58, went to Washington to argue that the U.S. was in poor shape for the heat-resistant alloy it needed for jet engines, persuaded the Government to start buying...
Korea proved Bunker right. When the U.S. started rearming, demand for moly soared. By 1951, production had doubled to 22 million lbs. a year and Climax was selling all it could mine. To catch up with demand, it has just completed a $35 million expansion at the moly mine in Colorado that will boost production another 55%, give Climax more than 70% of the world's total output...