Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom level of the main gallery, the collection is allowed to dribble off to nowhere. I'll add one good note about the exhibition's installation: two incredibly large and mildly good Van Goyens have been sent over to the Fogg where they are suitably scaled in size and gloom to the second floor gallery arcade. In all, though, I'm afraid that I'll just have to fall back on local pundit-philosopher S. Marshall Cohen's Confucius Say about the Harvard museum situation: "One in the Fogg is worth two in the Busch."PICASSO: La Femme au Chignon...
...occasion human and informal. "This is a very great honor to see you again," said Dwight Eisenhower. "So good to see you," murmured the Queen. Then, along with Mamie Eisenhower and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the heads of state moved off by automobile to dedicate a project that in size and conception is "man's utmost"-the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...that most European groceries sell rice out of bins; thus the European housewife often does not know whether it will cook up as firm, separate kernels or a gluey mess. One U.S. rice processor, Dallas' Comet Rice Mills, is now invading European retail stores with brightly boxed, consumer-size-packaged rice, reports promising sales...
...slice of the universe, crisscrossed with red and yellow traceries of satellites, surrounded by full-scale models of the buglike Sputnik I and the heavy cone that carried the dog Laika into orbit. In the background rise four 48-ft. triangular columns, showing heroic Russians more than twice life-size over legends such as: THERE IS NO ILLITERACY IN THE SOVIET UNION...
...plan is a substantial increase in the base pay to 60% of total executive pay last year. Homer's new salary would be $306,749. On top of that, instead of a regular bonus, he and other executives would get special "dividend units," computed on the size of earnings and dividends, entitling them to receive dividends on the same basis as stockholders until 15 years after they retire (or to their estates if they died). Initially, these dividends would be small (e.g., Homer's share, based on 1958 figures, would have been only $15,586), but over...