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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where a general election is looming, the fact was particularly pertinent. Playing the genial host far more actively than was strictly necessary, wily Harold capitalized on his opportunity to the utmost. Although the Queen's representative, the Earl of Gosford. was on hand as a symbol of the head of state to greet Eisenhower at the airport, it was the Prime Minister who suavely climbed into the limousine to share Ike's first triumphal tour of London. And on television with his famous guest, Macmillan took advantage of the fact that Ike could do little other than...
...bill for a private psychologist. Over the country, many youngsters who miss the cutoff point attend private schools for a year and then go public in the second grade. In Houston, where the whole matter has been put on a cash basis, eager mothers gladly shell out a special head tax of $90 to break the cutoff rule...
...Cosmo Campoli, 37, a former factory worker, sculpts creatures swollen almost out of recognition. His sculptures of women in the act of giving birth are brutally explicit; his Prodigal Son is a head bursting with dim regrets. "I want my sculpture to exist-really exist," he once wrote. "I want it to holler when it's being threatened by neutral surroundings." His wife, winsome Kathryn Carloye, does small terra-cotta bas-reliefs consisting of ranks of tiny skulls, with things growing from them. She has to keep them small, she says, because her two small children have...
...chief executive officer of Eastern, the third-ranking U.S. domestic air carrier (4.4 billion revenue passenger miles in 1958), went Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 51. Under Secretary of the Air Force from May 1957 until he resigned in July. In the shuffle, Rickenbacker, 68, kept the board chairmanship, will also head a new seven-man policymaking committee. Ailing (from a back injury) President Thomas F. Armstrong, 56, will become executive vice president of Eastern with special responsibility for financial matters...
...author's delight in being oracular does not detract much from a clever investigation into mysticism and the mystique of power. The ironic Artist Tutmose-whose hauntingly beautiful head of Nefertiti is on view in West Berlin's Dahlem Museum-solves only part of the puzzle when, near the book's end, he concludes that "beyond our own motives, existence has no reason." Perhaps, Stacton seems to be saying, the puzzle of existence constitutes its own reason...