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...called "art silo" breaks with the tradition which has copied palaces for museums--European palaces which are, in fact, makeshift. With his genius for asking basic questions all over again, Wright searched for the simplest way to show pictures...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: Guggenheim Museum | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

...Kabul, Moscow's aid has a more pleasing and dramatic look. On Russian-paved streets, Soviet-made taxis dart in and out of the traffic of laden camels and horse-drawn carriages. Over the city looms an eleven-story mechanized silo with a bakery attached where Russian experts supervise the mass production of bread and its delivery throughout the city by a fleet of Russian trucks. Some $300 million in Soviet grants and loans provide Afghanistan with oil-storage tanks, power plants, factories and a direct radiotelephone link with Moscow. Today, fully half of Afghanistan's trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: The High-Wire Man | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...raised dams, like those in the Helmand Valley, to control Afghanistan's seasonal rivers. But, although it is carefully geared to the nation's long-range needs, most U.S. aid is invisible to the average Afghan. A quiet program of teacher training cannot compete with a skyscraping silo; a gift of wheat is less evident than a fleet of delivery trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: The High-Wire Man | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

From the patio of his five-bedroom, colonial-style house east of Urbana, Ohio, Farmer-Lawyer Vance Brand can look 2¶ miles over pasture and corn land to a white silo that marks the boundary of his 1,700-acre farm. But for the last few years he has had little time to enjoy the view, has been intent on a much broader horizon. As a director of the Export-Import Bank since 1954, Vance Brand, 52, has traveled more than a quarter of a million miles at the job of overseeing longterm, low-interest loans for the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: The World's Moneylender | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jun. 1, 1959 | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

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