Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind, grinding downtown in her little black Simca, is Buffie. Efficient, charming, she carries the informal title of "assistant to the president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...
...Paris made the inside pages-but they were milestones too, and history will so record them. West Germany took last week and France will take this week the crucial steps to declare themselves part of a Common Market that will enable these divided lands for the first time in modern history to have a vast, tariff-free trading zone comparable to the U.S., embracing six nations and 160 million people. At the same time (see below), the most powerful of Western European nations, West Germany, voted, to outlaw the return of cartels in favor of free enterprise and competition...
...year-old Economics Minister finally won the day. The law he got-which provided for a number of permissible cartels including "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings-was less than he had hoped for. Nonetheless, said Erhard, "with all its deficiencies, this is still the most modern cartel bill in the world." If Erhard was guilty of hopeful exaggeration, the fact remains that West Germany alone among European nations had legally accepted the principle that competition is good, restraint of trade...
...taken the overworked Troilus and Cressida theme, retained the Trojan setting, and come up with two acts that purport to depict the horrors of war. By war, Ashton means War, and he has underscored the universality of his theme by a sometimes clever juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern...
Local theatregoers are offered this week two famous examples of Baroque comedy, one French and one English: Wellesley's Group 20 is presenting The Would-be Gentleman (Le bourgeois gentilhomme) by Moliere, the second universal genius of modern theatre; and the Boston Summer Theatre is giving Volpone by Ben Jonson, the chief contemporary of the first universal genius of modern theatre...