Word: linke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afford to penalize our good papers any more," said a Hearst executive last week. "With modern newspaper economics, you just can't tap a good paper to carry a dog." With this unsentimental epitaph, the 14-paper Hearst chain lopped off another link: the faltering Detroit Times, which Hearst sold to its afternoon rival, the independent Detroit News, for $10 million...
...seeing a world of silvery grey and feathery birches. His figures rarely show emotion, but they radiate a sense of brooding mystery (see color). If his landscapes display no flash of power, it is only because he saw the world as perpetually at peace. Corot was the unobtrusive link between French classicism and impressionism-an innovator who would not jolt. "One should," he insisted, "love the art that procures calm...
RAIL-CONTROL BATTLE for the Western Pacific, important California rail link, is on between the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. Southern Pacific started fight by secretly purchasing 10% of Western Pacific; Santa Fe countered by buying 20%. Both now await an Interstate Commerce Commission decision on which will get a clear track to seek control...
...Gogh, whose resemblance to his uncle is extraordinary--sans white hair, he could double as the Vincent of the Parisian period--also has the warmth and kindness that his father possessed to so great an extent. He is a direct link to major figures in a vital period of the history...
Most of the popular folksingers today seem to think of themselves as the missing link between the hills, or the cotton fields, or Child, or wherever those songs come from, and the great Northern hordes clutching ticket stubs. If Miss Baez is no missing link, at least she is a quiet liason. Neither overly ethnic, nor over-arranged, she sings in a clear, narrative manner and her control of her extraordinarily rich voice achieves a highly dramatic effect...