Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tinguely, inventor of machine-operated sculptures that destroy themselves, and the late monochromist Yves Klein, who used his nude models as "living brushes." Her star discovery this year was Harold Stevenson, a young man from Idabel, Okla. He dresses from head to foot in white and sports a white flower in his buttonhole. His portrait of an English lord is done in 25 scattered panels, so that "each of his lordship's grandchildren can have a piece." Iris Clert calls Stevenson "a new Michelangelo. I adore...
...mark the shift in command, Hans Reuter delivered a valedictory to his stockholders (who include 30% of the company's employees) from the flower-decked stage of a movie theater in Demag's sleepy home town of Duisburg. Characteristically, Reuter called for more growth and more mergers-both on the part of his own company and Common Market industry as a whole. Said he: "Larger combines are necessary. If the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. have steel combines which produce 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 tons annually, we in Europe cannot be satisfied with works...
Once in the crown colony, they dodged through fields and thickets, trying to avoid being spotted by R.A.F. helicopters cruising low over Robins Nest Mountain and the scrub pines of Flower Hill. Most were routed from their hiding places by skirmish lines of British troops, and sent to Fanling camp. There, after a nourishing meal, the luckless refugees were herded onto trains or trucks for the short ride back to Red China. Along the way, fellow Chinese tossed food packages into the refugees' outstretched hands. Most of them saved some of the food against the day when they would...
Taxis & Dancers. For the first time in that year. South Korea seemed to be enjoying itself. Even tough, stone-faced General Park flashed an occasional smile as he moved among his guests at a cocktail party in the Blue House, Korea's presidential palace. In Seoul, flower-bedecked streetcars and freshly painted aquamarine Jeep taxis rolled smoothly over newly paved, neon-lighted roads. The city's 1,500 youthful, homeless ragpickers had been rounded up, dressed in blue fatigue uniforms and drafted into a service corps for rehabilitation...
...must look back to our Middle Ages and their noble courts of love. But the fate of Christianity was not decided in the courts of love; it was determined by those who, looking quite objectively at the 10th century mercenaries they saw around them, resolved to bring knighthood into flower from them...