Word: inge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there largely abandoned politics to supervise sweeping Post Office reforms. To the public, modernization shows up in such improvements as red, white and blue mailboxes and trucks and trim new uniforms. To business experts it shows up more impressively in such innovations as administrative streamlining and cost accounting. Return ing for a new term. Summerfield must tackle a task he has failed at before: convincing Congress that rates should be upped (present thinking: 5? for all first-class mail) to put the red, white and blue Post Office on a pay-as-you-go basis...
...Suez crisis, he sided with the U.S.; since the satellite uprisings, Vicky has bitterly lampooned Russian policy. Says Vicky, who also cartoons for the anti-U.S. weekly New Statesman and Nation: "I am in the funny position of having been called anti-American and of now be ing called a new-found friend of America...
...possibly as much as $75 million, on the belief that the U.S public will switch to color television. To 500 station owners and executives affiliated with NBC and thus involved-not all of them happily-in its color plunge, Sarnoff insisted that black-and-white TV is slack ing off and color is "the booster charge for our fourth decade." With the kind of optimism that helped his immigrant father become one of the great U.S. success stories, Bobby Sarnoff professed to see a pleasant sight. "At our 60th anniversary convention," he said, "I expect to be talking about television...
...TRUCKS will be built in Brazil for first time. Automaker will spend $10 million for enginebuild-ing and foundry equipment, as a start, will eventually turn out six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engines from new plant near Sao Paulo in 1958, Chevy-type trucks later. G.M. is trebling its automotive investment in G.M. do Brasil, which now makes truck cabs and refrigerators, assembles trucks, cars...
...decades have Manhattan muse um-and gallery-goers witnessed such a heaping helping of British art as is spread out before them this season. The main course, in the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's "Masters of British Paint ing" show, is a 150-year survey of 31 artists (see color pages), ranging from the visions of William Blake to the hallucinatory portraits of Francis Bacon, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to the cool, elegant abstractions of Ben Nicholson and Stanley Spencer's portrayal of a New Jerusalem near his green and pleasant home town...