Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out of a job at week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar...
Blob & Prosper. Ten years ago, at 28, he got his first art commission, a mural depicting "Children Begging" for the Amsterdam city-hall canteen. Lunching civil servants said it upset their digestion, hurled butter pats at it. The resulting controversy made him famous.
In the succeeding 11 months the political machinery to direct the system has been agreed upon: a control commission, administrator, and regular conferences of signatory nations. Provision for re-evaluation of the effectiveness of the inspection system was obtained. The West and Russia compromised on the duration of the treaty...
Volunteers for Space. On hand this year are 15 American graduate students (and five wives), members of the second batch of Americans-13 more are at Leningrad University-to study in Russia under last year's cultural agreement. As guests of the Russian government, they get a handsome 1...
Now that Frank Lloyd Wright is gone, chief rivals for the title of world dean of international architects are German-born, Chicago-based Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 73, whose skin-and-bones style (Manhattan's Seagram building) has spread the vogue for glass-curtain walls across the U.S...