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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sogne (pop. 4,000). While 150 newsmen and photographers trampled gardens and graves, while 5,000 curious visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, the daughter of a retired grocer and onetime housemaid in the 27-room triplex Manhattan apartment of the Rockefeller family...
...Chance No. 1 strike is no accident, but the almost inevitable climax to one of the greatest oil rushes in history. Besides Western Minerals, companies like California Standard, Amerada, Shell, Texaco and Midland have grabbed up 130 million acres in the area to stake millions on electronically corroborated hunches that underneath the permafrost lies one of the world's greatest oil pools. The rush has even pushed into the remote Arctic Archipelago, where at least ten companies have asked for exploration permits. Companies with household names such as Richfield are planning to explore places with exotic names such...
...greatest periods of art, such as the Classical and the Gothic, artists strove for an agreed-upon ideal, and innovations were few (or, if many, did not survive). But modern art relentlessly stresses the new. The result is mostly confusion, but also a degree of fermentation. Last week in Manhattan's Greenwich Village a lean, wispy-bearded man with the cheerful energy of a grasshopper was preparing something brand new in sculpture. His suitably improbable name: Len Lye. His sculptures he calls "Tangibles," but they are not meant to be touched. They vibrate...
...Lindsay, 21-put together a family-style act of songs and smart-aleck chatter and started right at the top of the nightclub circuit. The Crosby boys blew into Las Vegas' Sahara nightclub last month, after three successful weeks at Chicago's Chez Paree, on the greatest burst of friendly publicity they have known since they started collecting drunken-driving citations and showgirls some five years...
Thus last week the two greatest matadors of their day brought back to bullfighting the hot-blooded competitive art that can sometimes elevate a ritualized sport into moving drama. Just two weeks before, each man had been nicked by the bulls' wicked horns; now they were back, aflame with desire to star, meticulously careless as ever of the danger that moved beside them on the bloodstained sands...