Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded that the public rise up against the "high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo." Bolstering his messianic pronouncements with cash. Hartford got Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME cover. March 31, 1958) to design an ornate museum that was to be a counter to Manhattan's prestigious Museum of Modern Art (which, ironically, was also designed by Stone in his earlier, glass-box period ). Still abuilding in New York's Columbus Circle, the Gallery of Modern Art will be completed next year at a cost of $7,000,000. Says Hartford...
...Blade. In fact, Hershey does play around some with the size of the bar, changing it to counter the wildly gyrating world cocoa market. Since World War II, as cocoa prices have ranged from 8? to 74? a pound, Hershey's nickel bar has varied in weight between a full ounce and seven-eighths of an ounce, and company executives have learned to swallow such gibes as "Hershey is packaging a nice razor blade now." Recently, when cocoa prices tumbled below 30?, the bar was raised back to a full ounce. Hershey jiggers with weight instead of price because...
Starting Again. This was hardly palatable to the other five of the Common Market six, who promptly began their own secret discussion of a draft to counter De Gaulle's new proposal. It was in the hope of avoiding a head-on collision that West Germany's Adenauer pressed Paris for a face-to-face meeting with De Gaulle at Baden-Baden...
...nightmare started in the West German town of Stolberg, near Aachen, in 1954, when laboratory chemists synthesized the drug for the firm of Chemie Gruenenthal GmbH. After three years of testing with animals, thalidomide was judged so safe that it was approved for over-the-counter sale, with no prescription needed, throughout West Germany...
...Quakers start Sid Amira, who has been playing far below the standard that earned him All-Ivy mention last season, and Jeff Sturm. Up front are Jim Doherty, Bob Purdy and John Wideman, who at 6 ft., 1 in. is still the best rebounder on the team. Harvard will counter with Borchard, Lynch, Gene Augustine, Joe Deering, and either Danner or Bob Inman...