Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With control of the C.G.T.'s national machinery and most of the member unions, Peronism will have its old mass organization intact. But Frondizi has shown no intention of letting Perón himself return to Argentina. In his delicate, dangerous balancing act, the left-of-center President has allowed Peronism to rebuild itself as a counterweight to the conservative army and business elements. Now he must endure the kind of greedy heckling at which Peronistas excel...
This summer more tourists than ever before are jamming the narrow, sloping streets of sun-bleached, wind-bathed Provincetown, Mass. (pop. 3,600) on the tip of Cape Cod's hook. They shuffle barefooted and clop-clop in Japanese sandals; they peer at bronzed fishermen and pack swank souvenir shops; they fill the galleries, buy works of art. A town that has attracted art devotees for more than half a century, Provincetown has in 1958 become the U.S.'s undisputed summer art capital. The reasons: a new arts festival and a new art museum-both resulting from...
Moving spirit behind the test was Dr. Hilary Koprowski of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute. To combat epidemics of paralytic polio in the Belgian Congo, he got World Health Organization backing and Congo government funds, arranged a mass trial. Wistar Institute brewed big batches of two strains of polio virus: Chat (named from the initials of the child from whom it was taken), belonging to Type 1, and Fox III (named for a doctor who isolated it from a child victim), belonging to Type 3. Both strains were attenuated, i.e., they were grown in different media (including mice) until they...
...solve the problems of resulting congestion. The display includes the maze of Los Angeles expressways, multiparking garages and motels. It shows the plazas of Rockefeller Center. I.M. Pei's Denver Mile-High Center, and Mies van der Rohe's Manhattan Seagram Building. It chronicles the mass move to the suburbs by displaying a variety of housing, ranging from Rafael Soriano's garden apartments in Los Angeles to the up-to-date housing of Levittown, Pa. and suburban shopping and industrial centers, e.g., Eero Saarinen's General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit...
...million people with high living standards-almost as large as the U.S. market. Many U.S. firms that could not afford to set up plants for any one of the six nations alone can well afford to do it for the whole market, have discovered that U.S. methods of mass production and efficiency give them a big advantage. Sprague Electric bought a majority interest in an Italian capacitor firm in 1956, doubled sales by indoctrinating the workers with U.S. methods...