Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic talents of the canny poet King are as cool as his mile-high capital of Katmandu. He has not only managed to keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce...
...Sweeney is concerned, the explosion in the size of Francis' canvases is matched only by the growing exuberance in the artist's use of colors. In the early 1950s, Francis' dappled abstracts were tight, taut and somewhat somber, a reflection of his cramped environment in Paris. But in 1957, he took a trip around the world, stayed five months in Japan, established a new home base in Santa Monica Canyon, Calif. For him, it was as if the clouds had parted, and down poured a torrent of scattered forms and heightened colors. "Francis," says Sweeney, "has become...
...this year's round of European auto shows. Visitors to the Paris Auto Salon were entranced by the Toyota GT, which was James Bond's set of wheels in You Only Live Twice. And at the London show last week, crowds around Honda's mini-size line of cars were so dense that most of the curious visitors could not even get close enough to kick the tires...
...getting tough. It has taken us 50 years to build up our sales network, and we don't intend to give one inch on this vital issue." Especially grating is the fact that the little Japanese cars coming into Britain pay a 22% duty, while mini-size cars entering Japan...
Munro has had his team practicing on the House soccer field, which is of comparable size to the unusually narrow grounds in Philadelphia. (This leaves Cumnock Field available for the key Dunnster-Eliot game tomorrow...