Word: downs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram...
FORMOSA Ten Years Later One bitter December afternoon in 1949, as the Communists swarmed down through southwest China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, wearing a long Chinese gown, a grey felt hat and carrying a cane, gravely took leave of the officers who were remaining behind, and took off in his C...
But with hard work, and one of the largest outlays of U.S. money abroad-more than $1 billion between that day and this, not counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of...
U.S. experts on the scene, pleased by the general economic improvement, nonetheless are disturbed by Formosa's high production and consumption of consumer items, which discourages capital formation. "Formosans are consuming too much, saving too little," says one U.S. expert. Formosa now has a population of more than 10...
Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime...