Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beautiful Andean landscape and its handsome people, recitals by Chile's brilliant young cellist, Edgar Fischer, its famed Pianist Claudio Arrau and two of his most promising students, Mario Miranda and Alfonso Montecino. As the month goes on, Chile's writers will meet their U.S. con temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero. Washington will be invited to a folklore program of song and dance; and Washington's Howard University will put on an exhibition of Chilean art drawn from Santiago's Museum...
...recent performances in Belo Horizonte sold out the 16,000-seat America Soccer Club Stadium. Pontius Pilate wheels into field center in a white con ertible sports car with motorcycle escort. God is played by 42 girls robed in white. Throughout the spectacle, dancers writhe to twists, tangos, rock 'n' roll and American movie music...
...Plaintive Plea. By week's end, the parade of pro and con witnesses had some Senators bobbing their heads from side to side faster than spectators at a Wimbledon tennis match. Admitting his confusion, California Republican Thomas Kuchel addressed a plaintive appeal to Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Dr. Willard Libby...
...appears to arouse experts to belligerence, pro or con, and at the opening of the Los Angeles show, two prominent New York museum officials got into a public altercation. The antagonists: Peter Selz, curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and Lawrence Alloway, curator of the Guggenheim. The paintings in the show are "limp and unconvincing," said Selz in a short talk. "It is the want of imagination, the passive acceptance of things as they are, that makes these pictures dull and unsatisfactory. It is as easy to produce as it is to consume...
...that have 1 to 3 calories a glass instead of the usual 60. This year, for example, Coca-Cola has launched "Tab" cola and Pepsi-Cola has introduced its "Patio" family of five different flavors. Both companies report that the low-calorie beverages have not cut sales of the con ventional colas; instead they have lured customers who seldom before bought soft drinks. Though distribution expenses run high, sugar-free drinks bring sweet profits because they cost less to make...