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Game of Skittles. Instead of outstripping his time like Rembrandt, or capturing it like De Hooch, Jan Vermeer distilled it. Vermeer's pictures are even cooler, steadier and more meticulous than the customers called for. As Curator Theodore Rousseau remarks in the exhibition catalogue, almost everything Vermeer painted has a "quality of classical repose and silence. It remains one of the inexplicable puzzles in the history of taste that [Vermeer's pictures] have been confused with works by other artists, and that the identity of this painter, who to us seems different from all others, should have been...
Nevertheless, both labor and management agree that the guaranteed annual wage is an ideal worth shooting for. For labor, there would be more security; for businessmen, steadier buying power. Furthermore, at Procter & Gamble and other companies, wage guarantees have cut labor turnover, and thereby lowered other costs. The problems in steel, autos, appliances, etc. are far greater. But the success of plans already instituted by far-seeing businessmen, without the prodding of labor, should be an object lesson for those who will soon be prodded by labor for similar plans...
...temperament and will power. Stein himself credits his training, which includes a stiff course of acrobatics. Good skis count too, he admits, and he races on skis of his own design. About four inches longer than normal, the waxed boards are scored with 16 small grooves to keep them steadier than the traditional single-grooved runners...
Said Eisenhower, in his State of the Union message: "This farm program . . . will build markets, protect the consumer's food supply, and move food into consumption instead of into storage ... It promises our farmers a higher and steadier financial return over the years than any alternative plan...
Slowly, ever so slowly, this game called football is changing. The Atlantic Refining Company, sponsor of the nation-wide broadcasts of Ivy League contests, has decided to switch to the steadier professional game. The old fan now sits in his living room choosing his afternoon entertainment from a channeled selection. If he misses the late fall feeling of dump concrete, cold hot dogs and warm brandy, if he misses the "Peanuts," the "Get your colors," of a bright autumn day, he isn't talking...