Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Born in San Francisco, he was graduated from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1941 and, after four years in the Army, spent five years on the San Francisco Examiner before coming to Architectural Forum in 1951. In 1954, he went to work full-time for House & Home and rose to become managing editor before its sale in 1964. Next step was TIME, where he specializes in economic affairs. Outside the office, a major interest is the Blue Hill Troupe, which stages Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in the New York area. For Blue Hill, taxes pose no problems...
What, Canada's Prime Minister was asked, did he want to see most in Washington? "The sun," he replied. He got his wish. Walking through the White House Rose Garden last week, he looked up as the sun broke through the mist and a mockingbird burst into song from the topmost branch of a budding magnolia tree...
...level of incompetence; the cream rises until it sours." People who show competence are promoted whether or not they are qualified to perform competently at the next level. Eventually they go beyond their limits, become incompetent, and stop getting promoted. Macbeth, a success as a military commander, rose to become an incompetent king. Which is to say, "nothing fails like success...
...artistic shadow of her husband and other "first-generation" Abstract Expressionists. Thus it came as something of a discovery to learn that Helen can really paint. "For myself," wrote the New York Times's Hilton Kramer, "this exhibition establishes Miss Frankenthaler as one of our best painters." Barbara Rose, in an article for the April Art forum, will argue that Helen Frankenthaler is "one of the major figures in world art in the last two decades...
...expansion plans for a variety of interwoven reasons. The momentum of 96 consecutive months of economic expansion leaves most executives confident about 1969, despite all the talk of a slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that factory orders for durable goods-an important indicator of future economic activity-rose by $1 billion in February to a record level of $31 billion. Even a small decline in auto assemblies last month did not prevent industrial production from setting a new record for the fourth month in a row. Recovering from a January slump, personal income increased $5.3 billion in February...