Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme of Schoffer's "conferences" he calls spatiodynamisme. Sculpture, he thinks, should reach up and out to dominate space, rather than simply filling a certain portion of it. Modern materials such as tempered steel make such "dynamic" sculptures possible on a grand scale, and the addition of so-called music by electronic means would make them pretty hard to ignore. But Schoffer's success in getting his tower sculpture constructed is only the beginning. "My goal," he says solemnly, "is a city built up around this tower and, so to speak, taking its essence from the sculpture...
Chicago Tribune: There is only one place where the Ford company can get the money for this increase. That is from the sale of its products. The unorganized portion of the public, which is three workers out of every four, gets the full impact of the price increases without any extra income. The result is inflation, reduced consumption, and reduction in the number of jobs for which no annual wage can compensate...
...simple-minded fellow like Vidali. First it had been his job to deliver Trieste to Yugoslavia; then, after Tito's schism, the party line called for keeping Trieste independent; finally, last year, he was supposed to cooperate in turning Trieste over to the Italians, though a goodly portion of his Trieste Communists are Slovenes. He was also pressed to give up his autonomy and submit to Togliatti (TIME, May 30), and he did not like that, either...
Crump to Danny Thomas. Beale Street has remained pretty much the same. The place has been cleaned up a bit (Peewee's now houses a dry-cleaning establishment, and Handy Park is green among the pool halls), but on payday nights and Saturdays, a portion of it is almost the same old dangerous, wide-open Beale Street. There is one difference, however: about a dozen years ago, under Boss Crump, all east-west streets in Memphis were designated avenues, and Beale Street became Beale Avenue...
...quintuplets (Emilie died during an epileptic seizure last August), celebrated their 21st birthday at a quiet family party. Without ceremony, they signed papers to carve up their trust fund of nearly $1 million. The shares: some $197,000 apiece, plus amounts of about $14,000 (from Emilie's portion) to each of them and to the other ten members of the family...