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...imminence of his own death, was careless with his materials, bought pigments and oils in the nearby hardware store. One day in 1951, a rich Dutch butcher paused to admire his prized Ket, a self-portrait that was as exact and detailed as a reflection in a still pond. To the butcher's horror, the pond now seemed roiled; the paint, soft because of impure linseed oil, had started to slide down the subject's face (see cut). Frantic, the owner turned the portrait upside down, hoping that the paint would run back into its proper place...
...Premiers took a break to stroll around the pond in the autumn dusk. Then Mendès broached the question on which the week's success (and German sovereignty) depended. The French Assembly would not tolerate any economic isolation of the Saar from France, Mendès said bluntly, or agree to its political union with Germany. It must remain "European-ized," even if there was no longer any European community to which to attach it. Adenauer was reluctant to renounce all claim to the Saar as German territory. Mendès conceded that any agreement reached would...
...industrial growth. The milestone: dedication of a $60 million newsprint plant that will provide 750 jobs and an important outlet for one of Dixie's most abundant natural resources-southern pine. Outside the long, low buildings, some 450 visiting publishers and their wives inspected a giant man-made pond, as big as the Yale Bowl and capable of storing 30,000 cords of wood under water to guard against decay. Inside, they looked over two huge papermaking machines producing at the rate of 130,000 tons of newsprint a year...
...knows," he wonders out loud as he looks out of his office window across the rolling Massachusetts campus, "may-be someday a cure for cancer will be discovered down there on the other side of the pond (where the University's science buildings are located). After all, streptomycin was found at Rutgers, not Princeton," he says. "A man with brains can go a long way on the campus of a land-grant college," the President adds."There is a good deal lost for the college administrator in not forcing himself to spend time with the students," says President Mather. Here...
...century, Tanguy came to the U.S. in 1939, married New York-born Painter Sage, became an American citizen. Their solidly luxurious country house in Woodbury, Conn, is completely unlike the artistic "house"' of Breton's poem. There are a stone terrace built by Tanguy (a do-ityourself fan), a pond with decoy ducks, and a rowboat for "harvesting the bull-rushes." Artist Tanguy works in a made-over barn. As he describes it, he simply stands before his easel and begins to paint?without plan, without thought of what he is doing. Says he: "I am still the prisoner...