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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bargains to Taste. There was no question about either the dazzle or the taste of the 293 pieces (valued at $14 million) chosen for display from the collection's total of more than 1,000 works. The finest U.S. collection still in private hands-and the first to be shown abroad-the Lehman collection boasts several of the world's great paintings by Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Memling and Petrus Christus (see color pages), includes an eye-stunning array of tapestries. Renaissance furniture, jewelry, enamels, bronzes and even diamond-studded snuff boxes. It represents collecting on a grand...
...roll of dog-eared but treasured U.S. greenbacks. "If it's dollars you want," he said, "I've got them." Others like him cheerfully proffered their savings in zlotys in a vain effort to buy for themselves some of the items laid out in a mouth-watering display of U.S. consumer goods at the first U.S. exhibit to appear at Communist Poland's annual International Trade Fair. To hold back the crowds, the exhibit had to be closed briefly every few hours-while the Russian exhibit went begging. See FOREIGN NEWS, Nylon Wonderland...
...dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none of the Poles could really believe were just for do-it-yourself fun and not state property. Their womenfolk gaped in equal unbelief at a huge display of elaborate American toys-no Communist state can afford to waste production means on such frivolity as that-and the kids themselves reveled in a forest of vending machines, happily buying Cokes, candy and gum with nickels and dimes passed out gratis by the management...
Though approving the board's motives, Allen ruled last week: "The display of an item which cannot be freely explained and discussed is unsound educational practice." He ordered that the Commandments be banned. "If the end result of the display in the school of the Ten Commandments," said he, "is to stir up bitterness and dissension, then it is better that they not be displayed...
Once again, Batista's staying power was in question. For a few months the strong-man was able to keep Castro's revolution from catching on. But Castro's open display of fight and organization was an outright challenge. From Havana, orders went out for an all-out attack on the rebels...