Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand for the Soviet Union's three "National Days" at the Brussels World's Fair, small, smooth President Kliment E. Voroshilov reeled out a party line of chatter while moving in and out of pavilions. Coming model-boyishly away from a U.S.-style voting machine, he said, "I voted for peace." Remotely controlled mechanical hands that struck a match were "symbolic," for "one day an inventor might put together a machine aimed at destruction, and might be tempted to try it. This we should stop in time." In the Hungarian pavilion, a panorama of Budapest called up Voroshilov...
Autemotion. In Lisbon, visitors at the Portuguese Industrial Fair could play ticktacktoe with an electronic machine that cackles mockingly when it wins and snarls menacingly when it loses...
...exhibition hall for the "Provincetown Arts Festival-American Art of Our Time." Inside the tents, on long, wooden frame rows crowded too close for proper viewing, 400 paintings are hung alphabetically, a few inches apart. Badly lit, they nevertheless attract some 500 viewers a day, including a fair number of collectors who have already bought 53. The 400 were culled from 10,000 entries submitted to eight regional centers across the nation, then assembled at the Chrysler Museum for a final, prize-awarding judgment...
...exhibitions of U.S. abstract expressionist paintings on view at the Brussels World's Fair (TIME, June 16) and making the rounds of major European cities as "The New American Painting" show (TIME, Aug. 4), have aroused some ahs, some boos and a great deal of hullabaloo. Tourists, critics, even State Department officials have suggested that these works give a one-sided-and distorted-glance at the U.S. world of art. This week a new European show of American paintings is stressing another side-realism...
Cuckoonik. In Brussels, at the World's Fair, Milwaukean Albert O. Trostel Jr. wondered what made the beep in the souvenir Sputnik he bought in the Russian Pavilion, pried it open, found the words Made in Switzerland...