Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to the governor's bare, functional suite because Mechem wanted to show off New Mexico's painters. Mechem laid down only two restrictions: nothing too extreme or experimental, nothing that would offend good taste. Fisher hung his first exhibit in the governor's office in January 1951, has put in a new set of pictures about every three or four months since. The current show includes work by New Mexico's well-known Peter Kurd, who contributed Ranch near Encino, a typical vast, sweeping Kurd landscape. But it also has works by less famed painters...
...government was not willing to offend either womankind or Ethnos, one of its biggest supporters, so the Miss Greece finals went on last week as scheduled. Shiny lines of Buicks and Cadillacs brought 700 VIPs (including ex-Premiers Sophocles Venizelos, Constantine Tsaldaris and a dozen Cabinet or ex-Cabinet ministers) to the swank, open-air Argentina Club, by the waterfront at Phaleron Bay. Admission charge: $9 a head (drinks extra). Eleven finalists paraded, first in bathing suits, then in evening gowns. Outside the club, 200 policemen waited in their squad cars for something more exciting to happen. It soon...
Meanwhile, President Auriol sent for an old hand to be next to try. His choice: Acting Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. Bidault is no man to offend the union rules among ministers by demanding undue personal sacrifices of them...
According to Maclver, he and his associates have a completely free hand and "...do not to propose to trim any conclusions in order not to offend anybody's susceptibilities...
...four-color ads of all the national brands?a dusky glamour girl smiling above a pack of Luckies, Negro men of distinction sipping Calvert, a Negro executive praising Remington typewriters. (Most advertising agencies now have special Negro market consultants who see to it that ads will sell and not offend Negroes...