Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make It Ugly. Then, abrupt as a blow, came Les Demoiselles d' Avignon, a painting done in 1907 depicting five dramatic salmon-pink nudes, their faces hideous as primitive African masks. On seeing the painting, French Painter Georges Braque gasped: "You are asking us to drink petrol in order to spit fire." Today, Demoiselles, which made primitive art an accepted fountainhead of modern art, has only the dated quality of yesteryear's manifesto. But it marked a significant break in art history, ushering in an age in which art is no longer the readily grasped reaffirmation of everyman...
...only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored a proposed $450 million multipurpose (power, flood control, irrigation) federal Nez Perce dam below the confluence of the Snake and Salmon Rivers. In addition. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton believes that the private plans may be too limited (TIME, Feb. 25), is studying an alternate multipurpose federal dam at Pleasant Valley...
...fishermen, loggers, chicken farmers and the elderly retired, whom Heath most commonly treats, are never embarrassed by oversize bills, sometimes settle accounts with the country doctor's traditional basket of eggs or a fresh-caught sockeye salmon. Last week the islanders found a different way of thanking "our beloved Doc." At Friday Harbor he was handed the keys to a new 20-room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual...
...about the ancient people who made the rock carvings. The carvings themselves cannot be dated by any known method, but carbon-14 tests of an organic material from a nearby mound show that the region was inhabited 9,000 years ago. Presumably the rock carvers depended on the Columbia salmon, as later Indians did, but where they came from and what happened to them no one knows. The mystery may be solved by study of the carvings- if they are saved in time...
...subterranean room. Three terrorists, smoked out of this room, told of other secret places. A total of 17 hideouts (not all of them occupied) were found behind bookcases and false walls and down hidden trapdoors. One contained 300 cans of food, including Scotch salmon...