Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eminent piano has been the Steinway, which at its best has a soar ing, singing tone and a delicately responsive action...
...subsided -partly because police allowed the hydrants to gush until 5 p.m. before closing them. Then a Negro girl doused a cop with a pail of water, and the slum ignited once more. That night and the next, the level of violence increased by almost geometric progression, spread ing west and south to cover an area eight miles square. Negroes stopped automobiles driven by whites and beat the occupants. Small gangs pillaged scores of shops. They hurled fire bombs, rocks and chunks of masonry at the firemen who responded to the alarms. As Molotov cocktails burst in one drugstore window...
Died. Malvina Hoffman, 79, long America's foremost woman sculptor, a Rodin student whose deft-but-not-dar ing work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...there are perhaps only 20 unlimited-class hydroplane racers in the world. Last week 15% of them were wiped out in a single race. The official - and somewhat chill - reaction, from Lee Schoenith of the American Power boat Association: "I don't think it's go ing to have any great effect. But it sure isn't going to be the same kind of sea son for the participants...
Pressures: Easing. Businessmen seek ing credit to buy other companies, spec ulate in real estate or build up inven tories are having a tough time. Few lenders anywhere seem willing to take on new corporate customers, and many now insist that companies keep hefty cash balances on deposit if they want credit. It is getting harder to keep those deposits up. Last week corporations made their quarterly income tax payments, and because of the speedup in collections this year, the bill came to $8.7 billion, nearly 17% more than last year. Partly to pay their taxes, and partly to finance...