Word: snow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme by far was the Family. Jerry Lewis bundled his wife and six sons into bright red sweaters; the Robert Kennedys dressed their eight in nightgowns and photographed the assembly in the barn. Debbie Reynolds and group were backed by Santa, Jimmy Stewart and children by a Sun Valley snow scene. Walt Disney didn't stop at one generation, issued an eight-page, red-suede and gold-tasseled folio bearing 17 pictures of "Grandma and Grandpa Lilly and Walt" (aged, respectively, four and eight when photographed), plus children and grandchildren...
While the advance of technology has produced professional managers elsewhere, many of Britain's 500,000 managers are arrogantly suspicious of the new breed of engineers and scientists, and slow to spend money on research. "Of all the countries I know," said Author C. P. Snow, now Parliamentary Secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Technology, "this country respects engineers least." Result: a brain drain that has robbed Britain in recent years of some of its best scientific talent. British managers also tend to look down their noses at the self-made man and the aggressive merchant. "A tremendous...
...Loew's Hotel President Preston R. Tisch flew that far last year. Jets also make it possible for prosperous executives to live in one climate and relax in another. Pan Am has a regular clientele of Manhattan businessmen who have bought winter homes in Nassau, jet from snow to sun weekends on an easy 2-hr. 50-min. flight...
...small shapes. Her paper collages are most successful; they are black and white, with a little red occasionally, and their line varies between that of torn paper and real hard-edge. Her inspiration is nature (in which she differs from many men abstractionists) and in this case was the snow fields of Alaska. Yet the small piece "Rock and Ice" succeeds in recalling winter harshness while existing on its own as a non-objective work...
...mattresses, may opt for breakfast in bed, and at lunch and supper eat like the aristocrats many of them are. Says seven-year-old Count Vincenzo Balestrieri-Cosimelli: "La Meridiana's much more amusing than a grownups' hotel. I have more time to play and lots of snow to ski in during the winter, which even Daddy can't find for me in Rome...