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Susanne is one of 1,500 youngsters in the first school district catering entirely to handicapped children. There is nothing similar to it in the U.S. Last week, as the experiment neared the end of its first year, educators from across the nation arrived to inspect and admire it. They agreed that many a U.S. suburb might well copy...
...Greenwich Village place him on the top shelf of the abstract-expressionist hierarchy. Last Monday Kline's first show in two years opened at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery. Eager buyers were beating at the gallery doors as early as 8:30 a.m., swarmed in to inspect his new abstractions, including some (uncharacteristically for Kline) in flamboyant color. Long before the official opening at 4 p.m. buyers had snapped up 14 of the 15 huge canvases, at prices ranging from $8,500 to $14,000 each...
Kishi got two tours of duty abroad, visiting the U.S. and Europe to inspect iron and steel plants. He learned to play golf in Philadelphia in 1926 and on his return home became a popular member of foursomes with big zaibatsu business men who were painstakingly learning the Western game. He also had difficulties with his superiors. In 1936 a new Commerce Minister, resentful of Kishi's golf and restaurant dates with such influential businessmen as Sugar Magnate Aiichiro Fujiyama and Steelmaker Yoshisuke Aikawa, complained: "Kishi behaves as if he were the Minister instead of me!" Relations...
...national security) Gordon Gray and (for science) George Kistiakowsky. They were in rare unanimity on a general proposition. They intended to put it to the President that 1) the U.S. ought to continue the 14-month-old talks with Britain and the U.S.S.R. at Geneva on how to inspect and control any permanent test ban; 2) the U.S. should not promise to extend the test moratorium any longer...
...1930s, Eaton's vision had caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management...