Word: inking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifteen Congressmen and two staff members of the House Public Works Committee stayed at a Manhattan hotel on a summer weekend to check up on "Long Island beach erosion." Several congressional wives accompanied them. A neat square of ink blotted out the "Mrs." on the hotel bills that were submitted for payment. Members of the same committee, accompanied by a few wives, appeared in Manhattan again to stay at the fashionable Plaza to "study" New York's harbor and thruway...
Open Path. Against this background of alarm and recrimination, President Eisenhower spoke out in a calm and calming appraisal of the summit collapse. "In evaluating the results," he said in a televised speech to the nation, "I think we must not write the record all in red ink." The summit had brought about a strengthening of Western unity. "The conduct of our allies was magnificent. My colleagues and friends -President de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan-stood sturdily with the American delegation...
Still, the Met's show proves that pictures can be art even if picture takers have no pedigree as artists. It also gives proof again of what a versatile instrument the camera has become. It can encompass seas or explore a drop of ink, suggest the whoosh of motion, record the moment that a cluster of hands falls into an unforgettable pattern or the mood evoked when a great critic pauses to contemplate an art treasure. Two pictures that were favorites of the judges happened to be snapped by amateurs. Manhattan's William Froelich, an ex-electronics salesman...
Sometimes companies are surprised at their success, only to discover that Africans have found an unsuspected use for their product. Parker, which dominates the West African ink market, recently noted that its sales had rocketed and retailers were asking for gallon bottles. Parker finally discovered that its popularity was due to a thirst for education: pregnant mothers were drinking ink in the hope that their children would be born knowing how to write. Other companies have found shoe polish used as face cream, soap as fish bait, hair cream as sandwich spread...
With civil rights out of the way. Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress trained their verbal artillery on one another in readiness for a partisan election-year battle. Republicans rallied around President Eisenhower's black-ink budget; Democrats pushed forward under the banner of welfare legislation...