Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one faint whiff of danger marred coffee's future. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week noted that U.S. scientists have tracked down more than 30 of the volatile chemicals that give coffee its flavor, issued a report that concluded "there is little reason to doubt" synthetic coffee is on the way at a price about one-fifth of the real thing...
General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 58, retired Army Chief of Staff, flew from New York City to Mexico City and foreign residence as board chairman of Mexican Light & Power Co. Ltd., a Canada-incorporated utility that supplies about a third of Mexico's electric power. Same day, another Army notable, 2nd Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, West Point's most acclaimed all-round cadet (first captain of cadets, '58 football captain, '59 class president, "Star" man in scholarship) since Douglas MacArthur, headed for two-year expatriation in England, where as a Rhodes scholar he will study at Oxford...
...shadow. Her smoothly involuted forms look like Moore's women without the womanliness; they are more like analytical geometry than like people. More powerful are the forged iron abstractions of Italy's Francesco Somaini, at 33 a newcomer to the big time, who won the prize for the best foreign sculptor. Rough, inelegant for an Italian, Somaini produces work resembling meteorites and mountains, full of energy but at the same time monumental...
...titles last year) is bringing out the first of four volumes of John Adams' diaries. This month, Yale will publish the first of 40 volumes of Benjamin Franklin's papers. The University of Minnesota has launched a series of critical introductions to U.S. writers aimed at foreign readers, while the Johns Hopkins Press is running off copies of its five-volume Presidential Nominating Politics just in time for the 1960 campaign and a raft of orders from aspiring, though unnamed, U.S. Senators...
...polls telling them what they should like, especially that they liked bigger, chrome-decorated cars. Detroit guesses that the compacts will appeal particularly to people on tight budgets. But it is not certain, since consumers no longer buy cars to match their pocketbooks. Most buyers of the low-cost foreign cars and of the Rambler and Lark come from higher-income brackets...