Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...materials, the sense of suspended action and above all the tranquillity." One expert estimates that the Vermeer would have fetched $3 million on the auction block, but it will cost the National nothing. The gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr. in memory of their father, the late Horace Havemeyer of the sugar-refining family, it will become the gallery's property upon the death of his widow...
...Regent's Park. In paintings, his collection is equally rich-and heavily weighted toward Americans. Thomas Eakins, for instance, is represented in a quantity surpassed only by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has kept up with recent op and pop trends, owns 30 early and late works by Larry Rivers. His bet for future fame: Willem de Kooning, of whose works he owns 42. "If ever I have a museum," he once vowed, "I'm going to have a De Kooning room...
...other overage pastors, many Catholics agreed that he could hardly fail to seek Sheil's retirement as well. Nonetheless, there were plenty of complaints about the abrupt manner of the dismissal from priests and laymen who felt more comfortable under the free-and-easy regime of the late Albert Cardinal Meyer...
...more than in 1964-its computers were beginning to turn up some early warning signs for the current year. The industry's '65 sales record was artificially swollen by sales of 300,000 cars that were ordered but not delivered during a strike late in '64; moreover, sales last year ran more than 600,000 above G.M.'s carefully charted projections of "normal growth"-and insiders knew that they could not keep on beating the numbers game forever...
This is nothing new, either. A few years ago school classrooms designed to accomodate people had to handle as many as a hundred time because Congress failed to appropriate money for teachers' salaries until late in the semester. Washington workers are excluded from coverage under the national minimum wage law. Yet a minimum wage bill which still would leave them below the Administration-defined poverty line is currently stalled in conferences. Washington children whose parents are unemployed are not entitled to Federal payments available to children of unemployed parents in the states...