Word: homers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...display are 200 paintings by 61 18th and 19th century artists, ranging from John Singleton Copley's John Scollay and Winslow Homer's Milking Time to an anonymous primitive of General George Washington without his teeth. There is no chronological arrangement of the paintings. "The whole thing was done by feeling," explains Electra Havemeyer Webb, the museum's president and founder. "Paintings can harmonize, or they can clash and look perfectly horrible. We just keep trying until we get the right effect...
...Edmund F. Martin, 57, was elected president of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. the nation's second largest steel producer (after U.S. Steel). He succeeds Arthur B. Homer, who becomes chairman of the board and continues as chief executive officer. Chicago-born Ed Martin joined Bethlehem in 1922 after graduating from Stevens Institute of Technology, worked his way up in the mills from a repairman's helper to general manager of the giant Lackawanna plant in 1950. vice president for steel operations...
Strengthening Grasp. Nixon's first move had the impact of a grand-slam homer in the last of the ninth. He called a press conference. A throng of newsmen, TV people and photographers crushed into a long, narrow room at the Conrad Hilton and fired shotgun questions. With each answer Nixon deftly assumed his strengthening grasp of leadership...
...rest of the year, forecast that the mills would operate at 55% of capacity in the third quarter. Jones & Laughlin first-half earnings were $3.24 v. $5.31 in 1959. Bethlehem earnings dropped 92? from last year's first half to $1.72 per share, but Bethlehem President Arthur B. Homer, noting that July orders were running ahead of shipments, looked hopefully ahead: "This year isn't going to be so bad if present indications prove correct...
...Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones, and the family vehicle is the donkey. Matching the man of Aran in his barebones existence, the Maniot is scorched black by the fierce summer sun and lashed...