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...called Flemish primitives were actually the first to master some of the subtler techniques of oil painting. From the triptych's wood panels, prepared with white lime, light flashes through glistening layers of oil pigments as if from the depth of the landscape. But the artist depended on more than radiant color to entrance his viewers. He extended the action into the flanking panels, breaking boldly out of the boxy frames. The turning necks of tugging horses and the upraised arms of their whipping drivers set up a motion around the spread-eagled saint that sweeps through the three...
...ahead in some areas. Woodruff, whose position as chairman of the finance committee is buttressed by the fact that he owns Coke stock worth $30 million, was finally persuaded that the corporate horizon should be extended. Coke added larger bottles and cans, rapidly took on such sidelines as lemon-lime Sprite, twelve Fanta soft-drink flavors, Minute Maid juices and, this year, low-calorie...
...White House inscribed: "With deep appreciation, Jacqueline Kennedy, August, 1963") to the doctors and nurses. She was anxious to leave, and at 10:43 a.m., Joe Kennedy's blue Chrysler limousine pulled up to building 3707 at Otis Air Force Base. President Kennedy entered the squat, lime-hued hospital wing, emerged four minutes later, his left hand firmly clasp ing his wife's right. The sun had broken through a grey overcast. They looked, remarked a bystander, "like a couple of school kids." Thus Jackie Kennedy, smil ing faintly, went home last week, after the birth and death...
...holdings usually mate in some way. His refinery in Panama-co-owned with Continental Oil, and probably the biggest investment there since the canal-processes oil from the tankers of his National Bulk Carriers and other Ludwig lines. Recently Ludwig planted 1,000,000 orange, lemon and lime trees in Panama; now he is carving out a port near the plantation, intends to freeze and can the juice right on board one of his ships. All these interests have naturally steered him into real estate, and he has property holdings from mid-Manhattan to Bermuda, where he is building...
...miners already dig 90% of Brazil's iron ore, 95% of its bauxite, beryllium and mica, all of its graphite and nickel, most of its diamonds and gold. Its furnaces and factories lead the country in pig iron, steel and ferrous alloys, rank second in aluminum, cement and lime. And on its rolling farm lands, 16.5 million cattle and 8,500,000 hogs fatten for market. All this, though it is just beginning to wake up to the 20th century...