Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high walls at Paris' new UNESCO headquarters (see color). In a sense, the choice of Joan Miró, 65, involved some polite intramural logrolling. Both Englishman Read and Frenchman Salles are on the UNESCO art committee that commissioned the murals. "I was prepared to find something else that competed with Miró," Sir Herbert Read said, "but I didn't think for a moment the other works of art did. Surrealists are thought of as fantastic and frivolous. Without departing from the surrealist style, Miró had produced something on a monumental scale." Georges Salles was ecstatic, declared...
EGYPTIAN OIL HUNT has been ended by U.S. combine of Continental Oil, Ohio Oil, Cities Service and Richfield Oil, who spent 4½ years, $30 million trying to find oil in western desert, found only dry holes...
...complain most loudly about the wide variety of products are the retailers. Most dealers agree that business would be better if there were fewer models to handle, find that most customers tend to concentrate on a few popular models anyway. "I feel that multiplicity affects profit," says Edward R. Taylor, Motorola executive vice president of consumer products. "It shortens the margins for the wholesaler and retailer." Says Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale: "We reduced our models to make it simpler for our dealers to keep an adequate inventory on hand...
Cleft in the Rock. What Holly is looking for is what Streetcar's Blanche DuBois was looking for, "a cleft in the rock of the world." She seems to find it with a Brazilian diplomat named José Ybarra-Jaeger, but a scandal of which Holly is innocent breaks over her blonde head and Ybarra-Jaeger checks out. In that heartbroken moment she is defenseless and touching. " 'But oh gee, golly goddamn,' she said, jamming a fist into her mouth like a bawling baby, I did love...
...have been any different if he had tried. Like many a famous soldier, he lost his early engagements: "My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor." Her approach to the problem posed by Bernard Law Montgomery was simple: "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell him to stop it." Field-Marshal Rommel did not find matters so easy...