Word: highs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paintings in his estate include a Sassetta altarpiece and a Domenico Veneziano madonna, the combined market value of which is close to $1,750,000, and about 50 other paintings of less spectacular value, but of high artistic importance...
Brazil's booming industrial center of Sâo Paulo (pop. 3,650,000) likes to boast of itself as the locomotive that pulls all the other Brazilian states. Ten years ago Industrialist Francisco ("Cicillo") Matarazzo Sobrinho* decided it was high time Sâo Paulo got up enough steam to become a center of the arts as well. Stoked by Matarazzo's enthusiasm and backing, the city fathers and state officials financed a multimillion-dollar series of exhibition halls in the city's suburbs, organized a biennial show of international art designed to rival Venice's. Last week Sâo Paulo...
...specific case at issue occurred in the rabidly segregationist Dollarway district near Pine Bluff (pop. 37,000), where three Negro students applied for immediate entrance to the all-white Dollarway High School. School officials refused, and a U.S. district court ordered the children admitted at once. The Dollarway school board countered by invoking the placement law, assigned the youngsters to a Negro school and appealed the case to the Circuit Court. The Negroes' next move: to prove, if they can, that the school board acted in bad faith...
...gamble on a rear engine. One reason: Cole, working together with Cadillac Chief John Gordon (now G.M.'s president), developed a new short-stroke V-8 front engine with an increased compression. It proved so successful that it set the basic design for most of G.M.'s high-compression engines now in use. It was 221 Ibs. lighter (25%) than the Caddy's previous power plant, yet stepped up power by 7% to 160 h.p., and stretched fuel economy at first by 15%-and eventually to 19 miles per gallon. But Cole still hankered to perfect...
...Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja, translated by Anthony Kerrigan. A tale of high 19th century adventure (duels, mutiny, piracy) along the Basque seacoast told in a dry, direct style full of stoic understatement...