Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' stiff statement came in a week of generally stiffening attitudes toward Berlin. Khrushchev began it with a brazen threat that any Western attempt to break through to West Berlin by force would bring nuclear war (see FOREIGN NEWS). In his press conference President Eisenhower promised: "We stand firm on the rights and the responsibilities that we have undertaken" on behalf of non-Communist Germany. And in a Washington speech to the National Press Club, West German Ambassador Wilhelm G. Grewe expressed his government's deep-seated doubt that the German crisis can somehow be solved...
...Germany's future status? "Ja, fine," said the old man, "we can discuss reunification at the same time." Adenauer had not changed: with him it was still reunification über alles. Next day Adenauer admonished the "flexibles" among his own party's Bundestag Deputies to stand "absolutely firm" with the West against wider negotiations over Berlin...
Canadian law since 1956 has permitted the private purchase of gold bullion, and some banks have developed a modest sideline in the purchase, sale and storage of gold bars for clients. Last week the Toronto firm of Doherty Roadhouse & Co. advertised a fresh wrinkle: margin buying. Within an hour after Partner John Rogers opened the books on the new scheme, $140,000 in orders snowed down on his desk; inquiries crackled in by the hundreds from...
Edward Hopper's Sunlight in a Cafeteria (see color) was strictly old-school-tie abstraction-the tie being to reality. It proved once again that Hopper, 76, keeps as firm a grip on imaginary space as any abstract artist alive, still wrings poetry from its arrangement. Charles Sheeler, Georgia O'Keeffe and Loren Maclver also scored for the older generation, and Stuart Davis' brassily old-fashioned abstraction, Pochade, was like a joyful bopping of the drums for Dixieland jazz, a great U.S. export of another era. Overall, the Whitney show testified that there is more substance...
...Scott-Free. Grabbing his readers by their lapels. Editor Scott ran an expose of shyster used-car dealers that put the worst offender out of business, followed up with a story on a bogus real estate firm that led to three indictments for fraud. He front-paged an account of Vancouver's skid-row bread line, side by side with a Canadian Press story saying that Kraft Foods Ltd. blamed the high cost of food on the consumer demand for fancy preparation. Even Publisher Crornie did not get off Scott-free. The Sun ran a three-part analysis...