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Mame is the Mother Courage of Beekman Place. Stock-market crashes and depressions don't faze her. Pregnant unwed secretaries waddling down spiral staircases amid Japanese modern mobiles don't lift her eyebrows. When she meets a Southern aristocrat named Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, she promptly marries him, goes "Sooth," and teaches the hunting gentry a thing or two by bringing the fox back alive. Mame has gusto, gallantry, and an unshakable philosophy: "Life is a banquet, and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death...
...coated with resins. Having upped its research staff from 274 to 700 persons, Bethlehem Steel in the last year has brought out a corrosion-resistant sheet steel cheaper than some alloys, devised a plastic coating to protect suspension-bridge cables from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel last week announced that it will build the world's first plant, at Midland, Pa., to make stainless steel in a continuous liquid process...
Posterity appreciates Paul Gauguin more than his contemporaries did. While he lived, the museums of his native France coldly refused him wall space. Until his death in 1903, his canvases found mostly a rude or indifferent market; later the bidding began to spiral out of sight: a single Gauguin was knocked down for $364,000 at Sotheby's in 1959. Posterity, in short, has caught up with Gauguin's notion of his own indisputable greatness. The matter of the Gauguin legend, however, is disputable, and this book ably succeeds in separating the facts from the romance...
...Street. The next, more difficult step is up to the Administration. In a classic inflationary spiral such as the present one, when demand outpaces supply, and when monetary measures have been exhausted, the balance can only be evened by cutting Government spending or raising taxes-fast. "The time for action is now," said John Langum, president of Chicago's Business Economics, Inc. "Instead, we have this happy talk that everything is fine." Samuelson, anxious to prove that "the new economics is an honest economics, a two-way street," urged that the existing 7% investment tax credit for business...
...cover painting, Artist Robert Vickrey studied about 100 detailed photographs of the skies to work out the background for his portrait of Schmidt. The whirling mass in the upper righthand corner is a spiral galaxy. To the left is a very bright star as seen through an optical telescope. In the right foreground, Vickrey renders a quasar, which may be recognized by the small jet stream spilling out from it at right. In showing Schmidt's head with its reflections receding into space, the artist tried to "give the feeling of infinity, the impression of an echo or radio...