Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly White House conference with G.O.P. Senate leaders one morning last week, Senate G.O.P. Policy Committee Chairman Styles Bridges asked permission to read a letter from an irate citizen. The letter, delivered with oratorical flourishes, was a scathing indictment of the U.S. exhibit at the Brussels Fair as a notable U.S. propaganda failure in the cold war. Leaving the White House, Bridges told reporters that the President was "very irritated" at what he had heard. And next day, on the President's urgent order, purse-lipped George V. Allen, head of the U.S. Information Agency and as such, keeper...
...lawyer in Chicago Heights, Ill., where he also is board chairman of the Brummer Seal Co. (engine gaskets). In May, he and Mrs. Robertson took in the fair as the high spot of a European tour. "Everybody I talked to was interested in seeing the two largest exhibits, the Russian and ours," said Robertson. "But as I walked through the American exhibit, I didn't see America anywhere." What Robertson saw and did not like broke down as: ¶ Too much modern art. An admitted fan of Norman Rockwell's Satevepost covers, Robertson did a slow burn...
...Claims about the American standard of living "so unreal as to cause an observer to dismiss the entire exhibit as false propaganda." For example: a television program showing "a woman coming from the supermarket with a bag of groceries, getting into her private plane and returning by air to her suburban home...
Utterly absent from the exhibit, said Robertson, was any suggestion of "our industrial achievements," any real feeling for how Americans live, any hint of "how we tax ourselves to help the other people of the world...
Wanted: A Point. Last week, as George Allen loped around the Brussels Fair's 470 foot-wearying acres, comparing the U.S. exhibit to those of other nations, European visitors seemed far more approving of the U.S. exhibit than Americans. (One unplanned highlight: the U.S. exhibit offered large numbers of comfortable free chairs for weary visitors.) Americans were in unanimous agreement that the U.S. Pavilion building, designed by Architect Edward Stone (TIME, Mar. 13), was a delight-even Letter Writer Robertson praised...