Word: milliken
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Much as Dulles and Nixon and Charlie Wilson bored and irritated Eisenhower, Hughes says he was provoked to real anger and disgust only by the clowns and rogues who populated Congress: Knowland, Bricker, Dirksen, Milliken, McCarthy. On the subject of Mr. Bricker and his Amendment, Eisenhower waxed especially splenetic: at a Cabinet meeting in early April, 1953, "the President, listening to the latest accounts of trying to appease Bricker, cried in anguish, 'I'm so sick of this I could scream. The whole damn thing is senseless and plain damaging to the prestige of the United States. We talk about...
...stepping up their switch to synthetics, spent $620 million on new plant and gear last year-up more than 100% since the low year of 1958. Among the many research projects, 150-year-old J.P. Stevens & Co. is working with papermakers to develop disposable clothing, and Deering-Milliken is reportedly experimenting with a process to manufacture textiles by pressing bits of fiber together instead of weaving them. But the industry cannot prosper as it should until some sense is brought into the pricing of its raw materials, which account for 50% of its production costs...
...feel a great pride," says Milliken, "when you find that in Currier Gallery in Manchester, N.H., you have a masterpiece of the abstract period of Picasso. The show lets one realize that throughout the country in so many smaller museums there are masterpieces−the Titian in Omaha, the Delacroix in Chapel Hill, the Terbrugghen from Oberlin...
Searching abroad to fill out his show, Milliken borrowed art from the Louvre, India, Japan and Taiwan. Altogether his catch amounted to 63 paintings, four pieces of sculpture, some goldsmith and enamel work, and a display of manuscripts from the Morgan Library. One of his regrets is that he failed to get a Velasquez, but he took his−chances. "In the museum where they had a Velasquez that I would have liked to borrow, they happened to have an El Greco which I felt was finer...
...Milliken's Seattle exhibit, as he intended, does not represent a history of art: but in bringing together 72 works that would be hard or impossible to borrow for a lesser occasion, he has put on a show that is well worth an hour off from the geewhizzery of space and the girlie shows of the Gayway...