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...near the nearly deserted hamlet of Marlboro, the entrance to which is designated by a crudely painted sign: "Cows in Road." In 1950 they were approached by tiny Marlboro College (50 students), which had been established in 1947 on 600 acres of deserted farm land on Marlboro's Potash Hill, and offered the use of the college's buildings for summer musical events. Serkin saw a chance to set up the kind of musical community he had dreamed of for years-a place where instrumentalists could play together, free of normal concert pressures. For his "Republic of Equals...
...Bonn is committed to preserve the jobs of most of West Germany's 306,000 coal miners, fears the power at the polls of the 600,000-member union of coal, iron-ore and potash miners. This makes little sense to German economists, who point out that the booming country has a labor shortage in many other industries, now has only 215,000 unemployed, fewer than ever before...
Suez. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold flew to Cairo to discuss release of the Danish freighter Inge Toft, seized by his Suez Canal officials last May for carrying Israeli cement and potash destined for Hong Kong and Tokyo. On the morning of Hammarskiold's arrival, Nasser's Al Ahram printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou...
...manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms of whole ships, gondolas, pyramids, belfries, tubs, whales and lions. With such excesses, Venice's sun sank-but not before the glass blowers of Murano had explored...
...half-interest in a 15,000-acre, $175 million potash deposit in New Mexico. The other half-interest belongs to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries and Phillips Petroleum Co. Oklahoma Democrat Robert Kerr, chairman of Kerr-McGee, is among the staunchest N.F.U.sliners in the U.S. Senate...