Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meantime, the conservationist has the often thankless task of discovering and denouncing ugliness and despoliation, and the not infrequent joy of victories won. For there now is proof that industrial progress and natural beauty can exist side by side...
...nearby Youngstown, Ariz. Deputy Nofs's death stirred such a response that the Phoenix Club may now increase membership to 350 and already has plans to pay life insurance premiums for all local policemen and firemen, hopes eventually to extend coverage to every lawman in Arizona. Grim proof that it is needed came once again last week: a 48-year-old Phoenix sheriff's lieutenant was killed during a gunfight, leaving a wife and three children-the latest beneficiaries of the Hundred Club...
...near future. Any substantial answer lies elusively between the extremes represented by Charles Shuman and Willard Cochrane. The Shuman Farm Bureau approach, calling for complete freedom in the marketplace, strikes a deep emotional chord but runs head-on into economic and political difficulties. Cochrane's solution, a farmer-proof system of mandatory production controls, defies the character and political power of the farmer...
...year -its 408 offices around the world serve as mailing address, bank, guide, interpreter, travel agent and meeting place. They also take on such tasks as searching for daughters who have not written home and getting quick attention for those who become ill. Best known for its virtually loss-proof checks-which have become one of the world's most trusted and convertible currencies-American Express employs 200 sleuths who roam the world policing it against counterfeiting and other types of fraud...
...Cite Internationale des Arts, a $4,000,000 studio project on the Right Bank that will eventually provide 300 air-conditioned ateliers for artists of all sorts. Ceilings are low, but musicians' quarters come equipped with upright pianos, painters' rooms are furnished with easels, floors are sculptor-proof. Under construction are a library, bar, restaurant, auditorium and exposition hall. Rent is only $55 a month. But foreign governments or corporations must lay out $16,000 per studio, reserving the right to name their resident artists. Whether such space will stimulate art is anybody's guess...