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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, President Eisenhower announced that he would "walk an extra mile" to reach an agreement at the "summit." While the President (vide his recent remarks about the Moscow Art Exhibit) is about the least likely authority to be quoted in an art review, I'll draw a somewhat shaky parallel from his political mots justes and urge all 3850 of my potential readers to walk the "extra mile" across the Yard to the Fogg Museum for a truly rewarding meeting at the summit of this past century...

Author: By Michael C. D. macdonald, | Title: Summer Art: Prakash, Pearlman, Wertheim, Warburg, Kahn; Museum Director, Four Major Collections Visit Harvard | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...smuggled out in the laundry basket, the wives have to sidle along together to hide Falstaff's enormous hat from the jealous eyes of Ford. After Falstaff has drunk some sack, he is still conveniently soaking his legs in a tub of hot water, so that he gets an extra laugh by gesturing to the tub as he exclaims, "Take away these chalices...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...interchange cold bottom water for warm surface water. The so-called deepwater-comprising about 90% of all the ocean's water-hovers around 40° F., and acts as a huge stabilizer of the atmosphere's temperature. If, through some imbalance of nature, the earth received an extra 1% of heat in the course of a year, it would, applied to the air alone, raise the atmosphere's temperature an intolerable 27° F. The same amount of heat would raise the deepwater's temperature only .02° F. "Therefore we think that its circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Frontier | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...Colorado Rancher Rood Menter and Nebraska Dentist Ward Newcomb. Cows often wear out their front teeth by chewing abrasive materials along with grass, thus shortening their lives. The false teeth, consisting of stainless steel caps, were designed to prolong the breeding lives of valuable cows, paying off in extra calves. Cost: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...many exhibits and a wide variety of stage events, the Festival was scheduled to close June 21. But a freakishly persistent cold and drizzle kept many thousands of people away. So Mayor Hynes and the Park Commissioner consented to allow the exhibits to inhabit the Public Gardens an extra week...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 8th Annual Arts Festival Best Yet Despite Weather | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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