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...other European entries shared Tapies' individualism; the vast majority looked like imitations of American abstract expression, seemed to indicate that a 'herd of mavericks is more herd than maverick. As developed by Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and half a dozen more, notably Jackson Pollock (see above), U.S. abstract expression might be compared to the hamburger and the Coke, which have also taken the world by storm. Hamburgers and Cokes are excellent in their ways, and so is abstract expression-but luckily the nation has other nourishment to offer as well...
...Secret (29.5), Wyatt Earp (29.2), Ann Sothern Show (28.7), Cheyenne (28.2), Peter Gunn (27.8), Real McCoys (27.5), Rifleman (27.5), The Price Is Right (27.4), Want-ed-Dead or Alive (27.3), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (27.1), Father Knows Best (27.0), General Electric Theatre (26.6), Texan (26.4), Maverick (26.3). Of the top 20, CBS has 11, ABC five, NBC four. ¶ Commanding a tempest to rage in a tank at Hollywood's Television City, Director John Frankenheimer filmed a ferocious facsimile of the flooding Mississippi River for this week's TV version (Playhouse 90) of William Faulkner's novelette...
...D.F.L.'s home-loving and service-to-constituents standards. The D.F.L. was quick to recognize a new problem: in 1958 the long-moribund state G.O.P. developed some new county chairmen, new candidates, held two congressional seats the D.F.L. had fought hard for, held the state senate. Moreover, maverick-minded Minnesotans do not like one party to get too powerful whether Stassenite in the 1940s or D.F.L. in the 1950s...
...half capacity and still turn a profit. The chief reason for steel's sturdiness was a widespread modernization program, which cut industry costs and made production more efficient. Few firms benefited more handsomely from that policy than the nation's 17th-largest steel producer, a perky little maverick named Granite City Steel Co., located in Illinois just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. While the industry is back to about 75% of capacity, Granite City Steel this week is humming along at close to 100% of capacity, hopes to keep or better the pace for the rest...
...elected to the Senate, he will be a relatively useless and noisy ornament. He might provide companionship for fellow-maverick Bill Langer of North Dakota, but it will be hard to construe his victory as any resurgence of American reaction. As the candidates go into their final windups, responsible pulse-takers still predict a Watkins win. Such is the course of sanity, but sanity tends to be so dull...