Word: ling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moonlight. Watson has illuminated some 500 gardens during the past five years, ranging in price from $250 for a garden 10 ft. by 15 ft. to about $100,000 for one of his current projects, the 17-acre garden of Dallas' electronics and aircraft tycoon James Ling. "No two clients want the same effect," he says. "Color is the tricky thing...
...nation's biggest industrial companies actually operated at a loss. General Dynamics, which lost a massive $143 million on its jet-transport debacle (TIME, Sept. 15 et seq.), led the red-ink list. It was followed by J.I. Case (loss: $32 million), Yuba Consolidated ($14 million), Ling-Temco-Vought ($13 million), Underwood ($9 million) and Hearst ($9 million). Of these seven heavy losers, all but Ling-Temco-Vought had also...
After noting certain stylistic deficiencies in the portrait of the young woman. Ster ling found documentation in the form of an obscure album containing drawings of every single painting exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1801. David had boycotted the exhibition - but the album contained several works by Constance Charpentier that year, including the painting thought to have been a David. Recently Dealer Wildenstein went back to the same al bum, which also includes sketches for the Salon of 1804. There he came upon the Frick's David under "Painting No. 114." But the legend in the catalogue read...
...liberals who man the New Frontier. McCormack's liberalism is instinctive and emotional, culled from personal experience as a member of the "deserving poor." He has little use for the liberalism derived largely from books and faculty-club discussions. Such House liberals as Missouri's Richard Boi ling and New Jersey's Frank Thompson regard McCormack as a hack politician who is all too ready to compromise modern liberal principles. Replies John McCormack: "I'm a progressive who believes that the road to progress is, in moments of contest, reasonable compromise. You don't compromise...
...bastard son of a French-English mother and a Scotch father who lived together apparently with full approval of the community on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. At the age of 14, Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...