Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the trouble is Robert Welch himself. Though he agreed under pressure a few years ago to put some young men in important administrative posts, he still runs the society with an iron hand, brooking no opposition to his ideas and acknowledging no power to veto his decisions. Moreover, the society, founded on the notion that a Communist conspiracy was taking over the U.S., has lost some of its zip and fervor at a time when the U.S. is fighting an open war against Communists in Viet...
...first F.I.C.C. rally in an Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot...
Recognition came late for Sculptor David Smith, and neither his manner, often truculent, nor his medium - gigantic welded iron and steel objects -did much to hasten his fame. Awarded a $1,000 prize at the 1961 Carnegie International, he refused the money, suggested that it be used by the museum to buy some art. "Sculpture has been a whore for many ages," he would...
...Before it was cast, the man who paid for it had certain reservations and designations." Smith preferred to work directly with raw iron and steel, kept his prices high, and if there were no buyers, well, there was always more room in the fields...
...west front of the U.S. Capitol is in danger of tumbling down. Begun in 1793, the sandstone edifice has 21 cracks running down its full 105-ft. height, and more than 1,000 smaller cracks zigzagging crazily in every direction. The front portico is held up only by wrought-iron straps, and in three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under...