Word: oils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clear Warning. The forum that Nixon used was a 55-minute press conference, during which, coolly and without notes, he reviewed the spectrum of U.S. concerns abroad, from Berlin and the Middle East to Peru's expropriation of American oil properties. When he came to Viet Nam, there was no question that he said exactly what he intended. Although he warned against the peril of using "words threatening deeds in order to accomplish objectives," he seemingly did just that...
...after the vote, trouble flared along the Suez Canal. Hours after Israeli jets shot down an Egyptian MIG-21 over the Sinai, artillery opened up along the 60-mile canal front. For the second time since the Six-Day war, Israeli guns set fire to Egypt's main oil refineries at Suez. The Israelis lost one soldier killed and six wounded during a 5-hr. 10-min. shelling duel, which each side accused the other of starting...
Kokoschka's best work from that period is Tempest, an oil that depicts the lovers swept up in a swirling sea of waves. "It is my most beautiful portrait," Alma wrote, noting that it showed her "trustfully clinging to him, expecting all help from him who, despotic of face, radiating energy, calms the mountainous waves." The theme of Tempest is repeated in miniature form-as the entwined lovers on the Bay of Naples-on one of the seven swanskin fans. On another, Kokoschka inscribed the Alma of the Alpine mural, adding himself as St. George fighting the dragon. Today...
Died. Marcello Boldrini, 79, Italian scholar-turned-executive who in 1962 succeeded the dynamic Enrico Mattei as president of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, Italy's worldwide, state-owned oil corporation; of a brain tumor; in Milan. A onetime professor of statistics, Boldrini joined ENI in 1948 as president of its distributing company, and was vice president of the sprawling complex by the time Mattei died in a plane crash; critics dismissed the 72-year-old statistician as an "interim pope," but in his five-year reign he proved to be as expansive and guileful as his predecessor, plunging ENI into...
...Some street plans are more difficult to police, some more difficult to service with oil trucks, mailmen, and bread delivery. But how often do urban planners consult truckdrivers?" Atkins asked...