Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snow. Half a century before the Impressionists, Constable was fascinated by the effects of light-in particular, light that came from his beloved and changeable English sky. His ambition, he said, was to "give one moment caught from fleeting time a lasting and sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study of Rushes...
...techniques and knowledge that exist are simply not used in many cases. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, the new head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...
...among investors that Montedison was on the verge of "hidden nationalization." The two biggest government industrial enterprises-ENI and I.R.I.-recently acquired a near-controlling interest in Montedison, a diversified manufacturer of chemicals and other basic products (TIME, Oct. 18). Now they were proposing a rule change that would give government forces virtual veto power in the Montedison board. Enraged, more than 2,000 small stockholders turned up at the meeting, the largest such group ever to so gather in Italy...
Yale distance men Frank Shorter and Steve Bittner could give the Crimson headaches in the three distance events. Bittner will probably concentrate on the 880 or mile run Saturday, where the chief Harvard contenders will be Royce Shaw and Keith Colburn. Although both Shaw and Colburn sport better career times than Bittner, neither has been able to top the Yale star's times this season in either event...
Jean-Louis Barrault, one of the world's greatest living actors, will give the Theodore Spencer Lecture at 4 p.m. today at the Loeb Drama Center. Barrault will speak on the modern French Theatre...