Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Buenos Aires with 80 repatriates, the Soviet embassy announced that all visas were canceled and no more would be issued. The embassy gave no reason. Argentines guessed that a wave of stay-where-you-are letters from disappointed earlier repatriates had soured Moscow on the idea of large-scale returns. Moreover, the campaign to persuade Argentines to return has frequently backfired. Latest mishap: a 17-year-old boy who ran away from his Russian-born parents, rather than return with them to their homeland, is still hiding out in Buenos Aires...
United Press service also demands a philosophical disposition, for its low pay scale and tightwad expense accounts are legendary. During a national political convention in Chicago, longtime Bureaus Supervisor L. B. ("Save a Nickel") Mickel cut down on expense accounts so sharply that General News Manager Earl Johnson told his men to retaliate by signing all their hotel meal checks with Mickel's name; Mickel was barely able to leave town. A sardonic example of U.P. tightfistedness was an exchange one day between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer...
...death (in Manhattan, at 72), his recognition is reaching new heights. Paris, which had never seen a one-man Mondrian show, this spring had two. The first authoritative biography, by Michel Seuphor (Piet Mondrian; Abrams; $17.50), has just been published. Two U.S. museums are laying plans for large-scale Mondrian shows this autumn...
Wilson's order would end the Air Force system of awarding contracts for long-lead, hard-to-produce plane and missile components before Congress allocates funds for the production of the entire weapon. If the directive is rigidly carried out, protested Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas, "large-scale terminations and stretch-outs of contracts would be necessary." Douglas warned that for fiscal 1958 the directive would eliminate $3.4 billion in plane and missile contracts and $800 million in other Air Force orders...
...join the gentlemen on horseback at the Bois de Boulogne with Toulouse-Lautrec, or scale the white stone heights of Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur with Utrillo, or decorate the Eiffel Tower like a Christmas tree, as Seurat's fancy did. Telescoping the centuries, one can see the coronation of Napoleon or Marie Antoinette in prison. Here is Paris drinking the cocktail of the sun, and here is Paris wrapped in the misty veils of a Salome. These books present a courtesan, the irresistible city of a thousand wiles, painted by her infatuated admirers...