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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera Group, concerns one Prince Caprice of the Kingdom of Flambeau, who persuades the nation's top scientist, Dr. Blastoff, to design him a moon rocket with plushy upholstery, an anchor at its stern, gaily-blinking lights and signal flags. This vehicle was trundled off the Boston Public Garden's stage last week and sent moonward with a bang, a yellow flash and an ominous puff of smoke. From there on, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: By Ark & Rocket | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...Vincis and six Raphaels are still in the Louvre. When Catherine de Medici, a generation later, erected her own palace on the site of an old tile factory, the Tuileries, more than a quarter-mile away, and suggested that the two palaces be joined, the "Great Design" for the Louvre was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterpieces of the Louvre: Part I | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Said a buyer: "The one truism of the dress business is that any design that requires slender hips will never be commercially popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Scrapped Sack | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...taken the lead in developing only nine world standards. They have not worked at all on 58 of the 142 draft recommendations for standards now being considered, including standards for such big export items as steel and textile machinery. Many standards may therefore be set up contrary to U.S. design, shutting U.S. goods out of nations that adopt them as effectively as do high tariffs, currency restrictions or import quotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: --INDUSTRIAL CONFORMITY--: INDUSTRIAL CONFORMITY | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...next decade, then in the next breath, told of a windfall already harvested. The gift: $15 million from the Old Dominion Foundation established by Financier Paul Mellon. Yale '29. It will be used to strengthen the residential college system, add two new colleges. Architect for preliminary site and design studies: Eero Saarinen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cash for Yale | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

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