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...George Cabot Lodge has the sober judgment, wide experience, and dedication to the good of all Americans to make him a worthy Senator," Eisenhower said. He called for Republicans, Independents, and "discerning Democrats" to answer the "crude and brassy partisan demands of the Democrats" by voting for Lodge...
Barabbas. A religious spectacle that is also something of a religious experience: Par Lagerkvist's novel about the man who went free when Christ went to the Cross has been dramatized with spiritual insight by Christopher Fry, and played with crude vigor by Anthony Quinn...
...southernmost end of the Windward Islands, it is separated from the Venezuelan coast by ten miles of water and oil derricks. Rich with sugar as well as with oil, Trinidad has the highest per capita income ($480) in the British West Indies. It exports the second largest barrelage of crude oil in the Commonwealth (after Canada), earns a national income of $438 million, compared with the $570 million earned in Jamaica, which has twice the population. Along with exports of asphalt, rum, and ladies' underwear, the small island supplies every drop of Angostura bitters for the world...
...considered one of the pioneers of the renaissance of European tapestry and is represented by twin tapestries, inspired by a visit to Tahiti, called Polynesia: The Sea and The Sky. Poland commissioned five original designs, considered by many the most interesting tapestries in the show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure-Nishiki demonstrated by Hirozo Murata's silk and gold Hunting, a scene of horsemen with bows and arrows. In Tsuzure-Nishiki tradition, Japanese weavers compress the weft as it is woven...
...president, you must discover its sex. A male corporation is to be identified, first of all, by its rough exterior. The layout is more practical than pleasing, the machinery unconcealed, and the paint- work conservative and drab. Combined with this rugged appearance is an assertiveness in advertising, a rather crude claim to offer what is at once the cheapest and the best. The organization is extrovert, outgoing and inquisitive." Male Superiority. Quite the opposite is j the female corporation. "Its factory buildings are prettily sited and smartly kept with pastel shades in the paintwork and flower beds near the gate...