Word: pittsburgher
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...spite of such broad activities, DSM's board still has to seek approval from the Minister of Economic Affairs for any expenditure of more than $25,000, must wait for a snail-paced Parliament to approve partnerships with private companies (recent examples: Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Many firms are reluctant to enter into deals that require excessive red tape and government scrutiny. Largely for such reasons, the Dutch decided on "privatization." For the time being, the government will remain DSM's only stockholder. But in all other respects, DSM President Antoine C. Rottier and his four vice...
...Leonard M. Schuman, Harvard's William G. Cochran and Dr. Louis F. Fieser. One smoked cigars: Michigan's Dr. Maurice H. Seevers. One smoked a pipe: Texas' Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre. Five were nonsmokers: the Army's (formerly Cornell's) Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Pittsburgh's Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Utah's Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Columbia's Dr. Jacob Furth, Indiana's Dr. lohn B. Hickam. (Halfway through the study, Dr. Terry switched from cigarettes to a pipe...
...Ellsworth Kelly. Three years ago, John Hay Whitney, then the U.S. Ambassador, helped found a group of American Friends of the Tate to add U.S. artists to the gallery. And two Jackson Pollocks were bought with a $70,000 gift from H. J. Heinz II, chairman of the Pittsburgh food company...
Half Disestablished. What gives the Tate its latter-day prestige is Director Rothenstein, 62, an English painter's son who once taught art history at the University of Kentucky and the University of Pittsburgh. He knocked the stuffiness out of the museum, installed single-line hanging instead of stacking paintings up the walls the old-fashioned way, and made the rooms flow in chronological order. He vastly enlarged the U.S. collection because U.S. art "was seriously underestimated abroad." His great exhibitions are the talk of London: the 1963 survey of Australian art from aborigines to Sidney Nolan...
...plays later (another pass to Gifford, a pass to Fulback Joe Morrison), the Giants had their insurance touchdown. The final score (33-17) was immaterial: the Giants had won-and it was Gifford's catch that did the job. "That was the turning point," moaned Pittsburgh Coach Buddy Parker. "It would have been a different game if Gifford hadn't caught the ball...