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...stick to his painting by getting on the Federal Art Project during the Depression. He chose to work not in oil but in gouache, later switched to egg tempera, "a brisk medium that cannot be manipulated like oil. You have to get it all right down; you cannot linger over it." Every so often, Lawrence becomes intrigued with some major chapter out of history - scenes from World War II, in which he served in the Coast Guard, the struggles of the American Revolutionists, the life of John Brown, the plight of migrant workers. When the idea is too broad...
...called "neutron bomb" (TIME, Nov. 14)-a new breed of hydrogen weapon that is triggered by conventional explosives rather than nuclear fission. The ultimate in "clean" bombs (there is virtually no fallout), the neutron bomb is almost certainly under development by Russian scientists, and the U.S. cannot afford to linger much longer in testing...
...largest book publishing houses. He will be vice chairman of the board of directors of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. But retiring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who has had mountains of surplus corn on his mind through his eight hectic years in office, elected to linger in familiar pastures. Last week he became a director of Corn Products Co., world's largest processor of that troublesome crop...
...Migeo's estimation, but not a great one, despite great skill and daring. Saint-Ex's grievous flaw, one that involved him in a dozen crashes and near-crashes, was his absentmindedness. He flew for release, if not escape, and once released, his thoughts did not linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country home in which he spent his boyhood; flying through...
...coming down," he noted time and again. Within 50 years, he predicted in 1831, "the government of England will become exactly what Lafayette wished to make France-a nominal monarchy, but virtually a re-publick." He added: "The prestige of their detestable aristocracy will for a long time linger in the slavish minds of their people." When in France, he wrote that England "is a country which knows well how to handle a king." Straight Bourbon was too much for his republican stomach, and there were other unpleasant things about France-"a strange country made up of dirt and gilding...