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Artificial flowers for allergic actresses are only one use of the U.S.'s flowering bogus-blossom bloom. Imports from Italy and Hong Kong, which manufacture the bulk of the world's fake-flower output, have jumped more than 20 times since 1955. It is now a $50 million-a-year business. Of poor quality in the past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some...
With this philosophy. Dotremont has made himself Europe's leading collector of American art: 40 of his 140 paintings are from the U.S. His made-in-America flower bursts crowd the walls, halls, ante rooms and garage of his cubist suburban Brussels home. This week 85 that had been on loan for a one-collector show at Basel's Kunsthalle were back where dapper, 63-year-old Dotremont could vibrate to them. In addition to European moderns such as Dubuffet and Mathieu, there was a great acreage of Americans, notably Mark Tobey, Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Willem...
Highlight of Ayub's busy week was his first night in Washington, when he was guest of honor at Jackie Kennedy's imaginative fête champêtre at Mount Vernon. The silty Potomac glittered golden in the setting sun as 138 guests boarded four flower-laden boats (each with its own musicians) for the 15-mile cruise to George Washington's sprawling estate. The ladies had been instructed to wear short dresses (the better to clamber about Mount Vernon's expansive lawn), and the men wore white dinner coats-except, unaccountably-the clothes-conscious...
...great void beyond the earth's atmosphere. Last week they were evaluating the catch of the best dust gatherer yet developed: an Aerobee-Hi sounding rocket, which unfolds its nose toward the top of its climb and spreads out eight graceful petals into space like a great mechanical flower...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). La Guardia - a petal-by-petal re creation of New York City's Little Flower...