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...Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet trade policy; Old Bolshevik Lazar Kaganovich and Young Bolshevik Maxim Saburov; Georgy Malenkov, once Premier, now electrical-power boss; cob-nosed Andrei Gromyko, looking for once as if he had not an enemy in sight...
...Iupine and Rocks" by Charles Wardsworth, awarded the first prize, is a study of flowers and foliage. Elongated "corn cob" flowers reach up like snakes under the spell of a charmer's flute. The subject and Wardsworth's careful painting suggest comparison with the primitive, Theodore Rousseau, although the atmosphere is not quite so mysterious or internal. In another oil painting honored by the judges, "Meyer Gate," Donald Outerbridge uses the staccato brush technique of the pointillists to create a Seurat-like composition...
...present was given a measured amount of tobacco and five minutes and an unlimited supply of matches to light their pipes. No fancy pipes were used, although several briars were brought for show. For those who did not bring their own pipes the sponsors of the contest distributed corn-cob pipes to be used...
...customary souvenir corn-cob pipes and 4,000 sample packages of cigarettes will be distributed. Admission is one dollar and the doors open...
...mating modern corn and teosinte, a synthetic hybrid corn cob was developed which closely matched, in size and botanical characteristics, prehistoric corn cobs found in caves in the southwestern United States...