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...Paris he began the climb that is familiar to so many painters. There was the dreary little hotel on the Rue Dauphine "where you cooked under a sign that said 'cooking prohibited.' " In 1952 he had his first Paris one-man show, and on its second day, a kindly bald-headed man dropped in and stayed for 20 minutes. The man was Pablo Picasso; his comment: "Well done." Though Downing still works each afternoon in a U.S. law office as a sort of office boy, his afterhours reputation has mounted steadily...
SCARCELY a day passes in the city of Dublin that dozens of citizens and visitors do not climb the oak staircase within the nearly four-centuries-old Trinity College Library. They enter the majestic, arched Long Room, pass along the galleries to a desk in the center, part a pair of curtains to peer into a glass-enclosed display case. They are there to see Ireland's most precious treasure, the Book of Kelts...
...very reason of his climb up the ever steepening curve, the scientist has more than ever before come into the consciousness of world society?and in that limelight the scientist more than ever before is fumbling for and arguing about his proper role in society itself. "Scientists," says Author-Scientist C. P. Snow, "are the most important occupational group of the world today. At this moment, what they do is of passionate concern to the whole of human society...
...union, is disgusted with him, too. When the strike ends, the men vote to send the hero to Coventry. Nobody speaks to him, nobody eats with him, nobody touches work he has touched. His best friend deserts him, his wife (Pier Angeli) gets hysterical, the company pressures him to climb down and apologize. The hero holds out, he hardly knows why. "If people can't be different," he mumbles bitterly, "there's no point...
...gross national product. For the long run, the chamber was optimistic. In the face of the slide; said Emerson P. Schmidt, the chamber's chief economist, "the strength and level of the economy are surprising." He believes that the gross national product may climb as high as $520 billion in 1961 (at present: $500 billion) if the slump ends by midyear. Says Schmidt: "There are at present no grounds for sustained pessimism...