Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, the Government's rubber experts agreed that synthetic rubber would be a firmly established competitor of natural rubber within a few years. At its current price of 180? a lb., natural rubber has a slight edge over synthetic, priced at 18½?. But the presidential report anticipated that new techniques might soon bring down synthetic's price...
Memory & Spirit. Short, slight and urbane, Leonid is the younger brother of a better-known artist, Eugene Berman (TIME, May 24). He long ago dropped the Berman from his signature to avoid being confused with his brother, whom he followed to the U.S. three years ago. Married to Harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, he lives in Manhattan, paints mostly from memory. "When I was young," he says, "I painted outdoors and after three or four hours I was lost. But the more I am getting older the more I can paint without a subject. I made a drawing from nature for Port...
...usually simple. When it gets cluttered up it isn't so great." He likes to compose on trains: "There's something about the rhythm of train wheels. If I ever got on a real slow train to New York, I'd probably arrive with a slight symphony...
...first act moves at a fast pace, thanks to Rouben Mamoulian's direction. The show suffers from a slight ease of second act sag, but in spite of this, a bouncing, healthy show was born Tuesday night at the Shubert...
Although the Commission has worked out a plan which has been favorably voted on by the Assembly, that plan has not gone into effect because of Russia's adamant refusal to submit to the recommended control. The USSR holds that the UN plan is only a slight variation of the "unfair" U.S. proposal, presented at the first meeting of the Commission in 1946, and that the Russian system, outlined a few days later, is the only acceptable one. Soviet delegates claim that the UN plan is politically loaded in favor of the West, and is calculated to give...