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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already showing a willingness to make major concessions to restore peace in North Africa. France promised to withdraw all troops within a month from eleven garrison posts scattered through the south and east of Morocco, and seems to be prepared to evacuate all its bases in Tunisia save the great naval installations at Bizerte (as proposed by the Anglo-American "good offices" team, which can expect no credit...
Appalled by this razing of the nation's architectural heritage, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this month teamed up with the eleven-year-old National Trust for Historic Preservation and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to spotlight some outstanding pieces of architecture worth saving. Examples were found in almost every section of the U.S., turned up in out-of-the-way places, took surprising forms (including a jail). Items: ¶ The East Front of the U.S. Capitol (TIME, June u, 1956 et seq.), the traditional backdrop for presidential inaugurations. Architects and historians (keep it as it is) are lined...
...world who look at my collection other than through a mist of dollars?" Lost in the mist of millions himself, Gulbenkian fashioned an heir after his own heart, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which is preparing to house the art collection in Lisbon. On July 20, 1955, alone save for a nurse and secretary, Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, 86, kissed the last hand he could not bite-death...
...Final Proof. What was novel about his performance was his willingness to save the Assembly's face by entering into the parliamentary game. He answered questions skillfully. When one right-wing speaker compared him to Robespierre, who started the Terror and in the end died by it, De Gaulle (according to Figaro Littéeraire) turned to Minister of State Guy Mollet and murmured, "Curious. I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself...
Though the Depression cut into the beauty business, it eventually proved a boon by getting more women out to work, making them more conscious of their appearance. In World War II Washington politicians foolishly talked of abolishing the beauty industry for the duration to save materials. But wiser heads prevailed. (When Hitler banned makeup, the women of Germany simply refused to work.) The industry put its lipsticks in cardboard containers, found substitutes for strategic materials. One substitute: a cream type of hair tonic that is outselling the older oil type today. By war's end, sales of cosmetics...