Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Successful Failure. Tourism may be Haiti's greatest single asset in the years just ahead. Holiday travelers, especially the kind who hope for something more than a kidney-shaped swimming pool at the end of their plane rides, quickly sense a warming magic in Haiti. Flaming poinsettias and throbbing drums can make the blood run quicker, even in a dowager from Des Moines. The heady amber rum, made from whole cane juice aged in old sherry casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming...
...Magic Touch. White's decisive action impressed most people in the railroad business, who had known him as a straight-talking but reserved individual with a solid record of railroading behind him. The son of Dutch immigrants, he started out as an Erie Railroad clerk when he left the Ridgewood, N.J. high school, became a division superintendent by the time he was 30. Eleven years later, in 1938, the Virginian Railway hired him away and made him a vice president. In 1941 he moved into the presidency of the ailing Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, cut down heavy overhead costs...
...share were paid, and another 50? was declared this year. White readily admits that the Central still has some basic troubles: a big passenger deficit ($50 million in 1952), extensive repairs needed in the roadbeds, high terminal costs. Says he: "We have problems that will not respond to a magic touch from Palm Beach...
Balanchine had also stuffed his show with property magic. As Clara watched through dreaming eyes, the family Christmas tree began to grow onstage, heaving itself up out of the floor branch by bigger branch until its top disappeared in the flies. The window of the room broadened and heightened until the scene passed through it, outdoors into a snow-smothered pine forest, and a realistic blizzard of white confetti blew on the Snowflake Waltz. When the curtain fell, first-nighters broke into happy, rousing applause. After a dozen curtain calls for the cast, Choreographer Balanchine came out for a slightly...
Samuel Green is head of Wesleyan University's art department, considers himself an amateur. His thoughtful realism, at the opposite pole from Motherwell's work, creates an effect of mere niggling or near magic, depending on the viewer...