Word: pose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aged 55, picking berries in a field outside. But to render it was not easy. For months he painted only the landscape and Christina's own house in the background, finally asked her if he might sketch her, drew her arms and hands. "I was so shy about posing her, I got my wife Betsy to pose for the figure," Wyeth confessed. The painting, finished in 1948, was sold to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for $2,200, rapidly became the museum's most popular reproduction; it has since netted more than...
...Harvard freshman team has also been invited to the Carnival for the first time. Three top Western skiers--Steve Bainbridge, Jay O'Rear and Allen Waston--could pose a threat to varsity racers, although their times cannot be computed in Harvard's official standings...
...stored in the weapons' tail assemblies, strong indications that all four H-bombs were smashed to bits in the skidding crash and explosion. But some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water, which will pose problems in the expected later effort to collect as much wreckage as possible for burial. Unless the small amount of radiation is ruled harmless, the recovery team may face the long task of breaking up and disposing of hundreds of square yards of contaminated...
Political pressures in North Carolina last year catapulted four onetime teachers colleges into "regional universities." But they are still essentially teachers colleges, and they merely pose a threat to the financial support that has made the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the best public institution in the South. Spreading resources equally throughout a state is no real solution. "Our great institutions are a great national asset," warns Clark Kerr, who is heading a Carnegie-financed study of higher education in the U.S. "You've got to concentrate talent to make it effective, since talents energize each other...
Though generally more subtle than tariffs, such practices are often equally effective in locking out the goods of other countries-and nobody knows this better than Lyndon Johnson. "Nontariff barriers," he said in his balance of payments statement last week, "pose a continued threat to the growth of world trade and to our competitive position." In particular, the President expressed concern over foreign-mostly European-nations whose tax systems give "across-the-board tax rebates on exports which leave their ports and impose special border tax charges on our goods entering their countries...