Word: finding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires last week, the elected President, Arturo Frondizi. managed to cling to his job through just one curious advantage: his Vice President, Alejandro Gomez, had already been sacked in another crisis ten months before, and Argentina's rebellious military could find no constitutional successor to take over Frondizi's post. Dealing from new strength gained by open revolt (TIME, Sept. 14), the army began purging all pro-Frondizi officers from key positions of command. It was, in a word, a typical week...
...giving able young Kenyans a crack at higher education. The Royal Technical College of East Africa in Nairobi grants only subuniversity diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, an affiliate of the University of London, or somehow find their way overseas...
Like almost every U.S. community, Lexington (pop. 23,500) is full of skilled specialists and passionate hobbyists. Last year Richard Woodward, 36, director of audio-visual education in Lexington's public schools, decided to find out just how wide and deep the treasure-trove lay. With clerical aid from the League of Women Voters, he mailed out help-wanted appeals to Lexington's 6,800 home addresses. For $186 in postage stamps, he got back a rich haul. Examples...
...Paris, he started stringing cards of various colors on a coat-hanger form and let them dangle and twirl. Finally, Calder settled on free forms, flying leaflike on the ends of metal branches strung from wire. "Mobiles" were born, and their cheerful bobbing and spinning helped many an observer find and appreciate other motions in nature. To turn from a pond or a tree tossing in the wind to look at an outdoor Calder, and then back again, can be one of the most rewarding experiences in modern...
...best of the living "ironmongers." His raw, openwork constructions of iron, silver and stainless steel stem from Spanish ironwork by way of Gonzalez, but they have a peculiarly American urgency and, so to speak, a questioning emptiness. Smith is the idol of young American sculptor-welders, who find that they can follow his lead on a large scale without too great expense (a big cast-bronze monument may cost $50,000 to erect; a welded steel one as little as $500). Smith stays more inventive than any of his imitators...