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...Pennsylvania and Harvard, served on U.N. urban-planning missions in Japan and Indonesia, was a consultant on the reconstruction of Skoplje, the Yugoslavian city devastated by an earthquake in 1963. In manner Meyerson is shy and whimsical. One close friend says of him that "his favorite word is 'meld,' and his characteristic posture is melding the interests of a great variety of people...
...misery, however, is implied in the colorism of COBRA. Bogged down in the dark morass of existential despair, most postwar European art either has lacked the tenacity of U.S. abstract expressionism or was bowled over by the impact of pop. COBRA'S impish founders meld genial monsters with bright hues to make a joyful vision. Never sallow, slick nor stuffily sober, this art draws from dreams, not nightmares...
...process involves a delicate meld of drawing board and bulldozer, budget and ballot box, bludgeon and crystal ball. Technically, every time an enterprising builder tears down an old building and replaces it with a new one, it is urban renewal. But only in recent years has the process been conceived in terms of an overall plan to reshape the city...
...National Meld. Nikita Khrushchev, who five years ago sneeringly remarked he could obliterate West Germany with eight hydrogen bombs, has wangled himself an invitation to Bonn to meet Chancellor Erhard. Object: trade and propaganda, both of which Khrushchev sorely needs. Peking promptly charged Khrushchev with planning to sell East Germany down the river. This is hardly an immediate danger to Puppet Walter Ulbricht, though anxious East German bosses might be forgiven for wondering...
...thing called the Grand Bahama Hotel, where the swimming pool is so large that the lifeguards use a rowboat. Farther south, the so-called Out Islands are becoming more popular with the kind of people for whom Nassau is beginning to seem far too much like a honky-tonk meld of El Morocco, Smalls' Paradise and Fort Lauderdale. Eleuthera has acquired four new hotels, and Harbour Island, a tiny island off Eleuthera's northern tip, has for years attracted socialites from the U.S. as a place for a quiet vacation in the well-managed cluster of cottages called...