Word: evens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chronicle's TV columnist-reviewer, Terrence O'Flaherty, is read by Californians who do not even have TV sets...
...such successes are the exception rather than the rule, and most of the critics admit it. The Times's Jack Gould even declines to take credit for getting the Security Council sessions onto the networks. Says he: "I only confirmed a general attitude." Says a network vice president in Chicago: "A lot of network brass would say, 'Oh, yes, we take the critics' opinion seriously,' but they get nothing but a chuckle behind closed doors...
Beware of Death. But Clyfford Still, 54, pushed on into abstraction with never a backward look. He treats art as an apocalyptic vision, refuses to let visitors (even buyers) inside his door, recently turned down the offer of a one-man show at Venice's Biennale because of his professed fear that it would be misinterpreted as catering to "the praise of Vanity Fair." "A painting in the wrong hands is a highly dangerous force," Still hints darkly, "just like a mathematical equation...
...October, as a result of the steel shortage, the auto industry operated at only 77.8% of its planned 646,200-unit level; in November it is planning only 290,000 units, the lowest schedule for the month since 1946. Even an early resumption of steelmaking would not help the industry in November, because of the time needed to fabricate the steel into auto parts and fill supplier pipelines. Faced with an auto shortage, buyers rushed to the showrooms. Dealers sold almost as many new cars in the first 20 days of October (338,465) as they sold...
...Even after the steel strike ends, industry will face a host of other problems. Companies that have exhausted their inventories will have to wait for new stock before they can resume production, even then will need several days to get their plants humming again. Moving ore to steel plants is almost certain to be a problem. The Great Lakes ore fleet, most of which is idled by the strike, has little more than a month left before the lakes freeze over, may not be able to supply enough iron ore to keep the mills operating until spring. Even...