Word: sponsorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storekeeper has no definite ideas for the future, but plans to teach the art even if unable to secure the sponsorship of a university. Whatever his success, it is probable that the quiet mystic will continue to gain insights into the universal order. At this very moment, he has drawn up a list of predictions "too frightening to reveal...
Under the sponsorship of the United Nations, representatives of 51 countries gathered in Geneva's ornate Palais des Nations to deal with a problem which presumably was settled in the 19th century. The idea was to adopt a new international convention against "slavery, the slave trade and institutions and practices similar to slavery," but this week as the conference drew to a close, it proved impossible for nations of the world to cooperate effectively to abolish the most primitive form of human bondage...
...Rome's marble-floored National Research Institute, 42 experts from 21 nations gathered last week under the sponsorship of the International Union Against Cancer to explore the case against a worrisome potential cancer hazard: the dyes and additives used in the preparation and preservation of foods, soaps, cosmetics. The conference's conclusion: although the vast majority of dyes, additives and wrapping materials have not yet been adequately tested, there is clear evidence that some possess cancer-causing qualities. Doctors were careful to point out that they were not drawing a bill of particulars, but merely listing substances that...
...Measuring Rod. History has not yet balanced its books on Jawaharlal Nehru. If, despite his Caesarism and his ill-conceived sponsorship of Bulganin and Khrushchev, India survives as a unified nation without going Communist, Nehru's vanities and eccentricities will become merely a playground for biographers. Even his role in international affairs will seem neither so mischievous as his critics now think, nor so important as his admirers believe. History may not judge Nehru by his foreign policy, which, because it is essentially negative, may loom less large as time goes...
...countries exhibiting at Venice's Biennale, the U.S.alone gets by without government sponsorship. By custom, American museums have done the selecting, and private benefactors the financing of the U.S. entries. This year Chicago Financier and Art Patron Arnold Maremont picked up the check, and Katharine Kuh picked out the pictures. Her theme: "American Artists Paint the City...