Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the experts, Ramon Magsaysay and his Nacionalista-Democratic coalition are likely to top Quirino & Co. by several hundred thousand votes, in a fair count of ballots. Magsaysay supporters say that they have evidence that provincial officials have been ordered to produce Quirino pluralities or else. Quirino's managers released in turn a Nacionalista memorandum to party workers which suggested that if they anticipated attempts at intimidation, they should carry knives, hatchets or bolos. The election board in one province forbids flapping shirttails-the traditional Filipino way of dressing-on election day, so that officials can better tell...
Abroad he laid out $100,000 for publicity, including $30,000 for full-page ads in the New York Times ("Guatemala-Panorama of Progress"). In the capital's Aurora park he set thousands of masons and carpenters working to finish the fair for last week's grand opening. But heavy rains and the breakdown of the country's only cement plant were too much for even the protean Toriello. On the day the show was to open with a bigtime bullfight, featuring bulls and toreros imported from Spain and Mexico, the new bull ring was not ready...
...riotous bullring inaugural was not bad enough, Toriello's casino attracted little betting, his dog races were put off because of construction strikes, and his fellow businessmen showed no interest in the fair's industrial pavilions. A big hall labeled "International Exposition" held only four exhibits, one of them Toriello's steel office furniture. And to top it all, the hopefully awaited crowds of U.S. tourists failed to show...
...also shaped the early work of such major photographers as Edward Steichen, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, who were to follow divergent paths. Steichen went on to become the first famed glamour photographer, with his work in the early 1930s for Vanity Fair, today is Curator of Photography at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Weston pioneered sharp-focus photography of places and things, and started a naturalistic school, of which the chief disciple is Ansel Adams, regarded as perhaps the finest landscape photographer today...
This idea, put forward in the '30s by the New Deal's Brain-Truster David Cushman Coyle, has won support from conservative authorities such as the businessmen's Committee for Economic Development. Recently, Economist Beardsley Ruml, a Fair Dealer, added a new twist. The administrative budget, he argues, is made meaningless by one glaring fault: it overstates the Government's actual operating expenses by including each year an estimated $6 billion worth of items that are actually capital investments of lasting value which should be charged off over a period of years instead of being paid...