Word: ser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some beehive paintings depict fanciful versions of historical events: Ser bian warriors battling invading Turks, and even American Indians tomahawking white pioneer women on the old frontier. With the rise of world sugarcane production and the replacement of wax candles by incandescent bulbs, beekeeping has been on the decline for some time in Yugoslavia. But for the folk-art fancier, there is still plenty of honey in the old hives: genuine antique beehive paintings now bring up to $1,600 apiece. And at least one enterprising Slovenian, Vid Sedej, 28, is doing a brisk business selling his contemporary versions...
...performance was part of a ten-concert series by the orchestra at Stanford. Though the Suisse Romande is well known to American audiences from its recordings, this was the orchestra's first visit to the U.S. As debuts go, it was a grueling test. Ansermet (pronounced ahn-ser-may) led his 115-member ensemble through a symphonic obstacle course, accepting the challenge of some of the thorniest works of Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev and Berg. As if that were not enough, Ansermet then jetted to Manhattan to conduct five equally demanding works with the New York Philharmonic last week...
...aluminum producers are deep in real estate. Having invested $41 million in ten projects in six cities, Aluminum Co. of America is not only landlord to 9,000 Manhattan families, but also owns additional housing in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kaiser Industries and Kai ser Aluminum are part owners of a $20 million, 135-sq.-mi. site for a new city near San Diego. Reynolds Metals has completed 1,588 units of renewal housing in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Richmond and Washington, D.C., has $397 million worth under way or planned in six cities, including...
...coach hadn't found a howit-ser-armed quarterback; he'd discovered a real gang of tall, strong, glue-fingered ends. These guys, thought Lamar, could make an aerial offense go with an average passer throwing the ball...
...summit conference used to mean a meeting of the world's top leaders.* Nowadays, just about any get-together between heads of government is billed a summit, whether it joins Tito and Nas ser or Liberia's Tubman and the Upper Volta's Yameogo. Last week still an other less than towering summit brought together in Tokyo Indonesia's President Sukarno, Malaysia's Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman and Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal. Agenda: "the Malaysian problem," which happens to be entirely of Sukarno's making...