Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibit truly worthy of that old master, Fidel Castro. For lovers of impressionism, there was a blurred U.S. combat film showing a Green Beret trooper slinging grenades into a peasant's hut in Viet Nam. For pop-art fans, there was a cartoon drawing of Donald Duck, Superman and Foxy Fox representing three American oil companies fighting for petroleum rights in an underdeveloped country. Lovers of camp art could watch a carefully edited Tarzan film that illustrated Johnny Weissmuller's "white supremacy" over African tribesmen. And for the surrealist school, there was a likeness of a Metro-Goldwyn...
Architect Donald Janinski of Hampton Falls, N.H., decided that barn siding and beams were just what was needed to give a colonial look to half a dozen new Sheraton motels in New England. At first, Janinski found that farmers were anxious to be rid of the rundown structures, and he was able to buy the wood for the cost of pulling down the barn ($200 to $400). "But the farmer gets sophisticated pretty fast in New Hampshire and Vermont," says Janinski, "and today the weathered timber costs up to three times as much as new lumber...
...fluke by winning a Tennessee Valley Authority order for two huge 1,300,000-kw. generators. Despite the fact that the $28.5 million Swiss bid included $4 million in import duties, said the TVA, it was more than $10 million under any other. No less enthusiastic, American Electric President Donald C. Cook cheered the arrival of a "third manufacturer" in the U.S. market, and went out of his way to twit the American producers. "They should welcome this," he said, "because they are both strong believers in American competition...
...handsome profit. It was a coordinated effort. In one instance, the paper discovered, Town Attorney Walter Con-Ion, who was later appointed a state tax commissioner, drew up a resolution relaxing zoning restrictions on land he had bought in partnership with a Long Island hoodlum. Town Councilman Donald Kuss then introduced the resolution before the town board and pushed it through. Conlon's company made a $64,000 profit; Kuss was paid $9,000 for his services...
Monday, December 18 AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). English Satirists Michael Flanders and Donald Swann in a distillation of last year's Broadway show, which deftly poked fun at practically everything...