Word: cod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overturning the unanimous recommendation of the U.S. Tariff Commission, President Eisenhower last week rejected a plea by the New England fishing industry that he raise the tariff on groundfish fillets (i.e., boneless cuts stripped from pollock, cod, haddock, other bottom fish) and thus protect beleaguered U.S. ground fishermen against further imports (now 128 million Ibs. -annually, three times higher than in 1945), chiefly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength...
...summer the Hoppers occupy a little house alone on a high dune near Truro, Cape Cod. Hopper designed it himself, and it looks like a Hopper. The house makes no concessions to Cape Cod cuteness; it has no green shutters, no weathered shingles, only plain white clapboard, a solid, square-cut frame and a huge, clear picture window. Leading to it from the road is an almost impassably rutted track, a quarter of a mile long. Their neighbors debate whether the Hoppers have left their drive unpaved through unsociability or frugality...
...success of Breuer's 50-odd custom-built houses, ranging from his own $5,300 box-on-stilts cottage on Cape Cod to a $350,000 modern mansion on Long Island, has paved the way for his small, topflight firm of 15 architects to move into Big Architecture, with current commissions on four college campuses and a share of the Y-shaped UNESCO headquarters in Paris (TIME, May 25, 1953). But unlike many architects who are only too happy to give up designing houses as being low-profit, time-consuming ventures, Breuer (whose fee is a flat...
Obscene Quantities. Newman feels about the 15 years he spent on his anthology as he feels about his adolescence: "I don't begrudge the time, but I wouldn't want to repeat it." Vacationing on Cape Cod last week, he attributed the thumping advance sales to guilt feelings on the part of adults about their lack of mathematical knowledge. "That's probably why they're buying my book in such obscene quantities," he speculated. "They may feel that if they can make some human contact with this terrifying subject, they'll be able to find...
...National Airport to welcome the President back from Panama. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and White House Aide Jerry Persons walked out of their way to avoid him. Massachusetts' Senator Lev Saltonstall bumped into Stassen, reacted as though he had come nose to nose with a spoiled cod. Thirty feet away, Dick Nixon seemed oblivious to Stassen's presence. Only at the very end of the airport interlude did Stassen walk over to Nixon and say, "Good morning." The two shook hands briefly, while news photographers clicked away...