Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SUDAN. A Russian offer to trade arms and machinery for surplus cotton has so far met with no success. But last year an estimated 200 Sudanese went to the U.S.S.R. at Russian expense as students or visitors. Says a Western diplomat in Khartoum: "The Soviet appeal is that they pay attention to people who have never had any attention paid to them before. They offer free trips to Moscow to people who have never been ten miles out of Khartoum...
...warned him that it could not support him in "unreasonable" claims against Japan. Furthermore, with U.S. aid to Korea scheduled for a cut this year, Rhee needs money, and Japan hinted that reparations might take the form of economic aid. As a starter, Japanese and Korean diplomats met in Tokyo to initial an agreement for the return of their respective prisoners. True to form, the Koreans deliberately kept the Japanese Foreign Minister waiting for nearly twelve hours before they showed up to sign...
...Murray Hamburger original (retail price: about $275), giggled nervously. "I feel like the most rank amateur that ever got before a camera," she said. A veteran of the Sid Caesar shows. Shirl performed in fact like an old pro, even shed a tear for the close-up lens. Viewers met Shirl's niece, who had come via "Northwest Orient Airlines, famous for imperial service," and the announcer just had time to remind the best man about the "Keepsake rings" before a bonging of bells led into a plug for Jan Murray's Treasure Hunt. After a cantor...
With considerable pride but without great fanfare, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last month announced the acquisition of the famed Belgian Merode triptych. The Annunciation. By last week the Met's purchase of the altarpiece had become an international cause célébre. Said a resolution signed by 22 of Belgium's top museum directors and art teachers: "Often in the course of its history Belgium has had to witness, powerless, the destruction or pillage of its artistic patrimony. Once more, and this time without being able to cite the accident...
...Met's director, James J. Rorimer, granted that he had. indeed, bought a treasure. "There have been few, if any, opportunities in the last 30 years to purchase a more enchanting work of art," he said. "This picture stands as one of the great landmarks of Western painting...