Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a more positive way than war to end the threat to our security presented by Castro and Communism in Cuba. That is to help Latin America achieve the reforms it so desperately needs. The Alliance for Progress is a step in the right direction; it may not provide the ultimate solution, but it is a lot better than...
Nativeness, and other kinds of representation, are far and away the people's choice in art, but abstraction has an undying fascination in shows like the Philip Guston retrospective. To see it is to sweat out a painful development: every step that Guston took throughout his professional life involved agonizing doubts and self-reappraisals. Perhaps as a result, his canvases have a feverish, almost tentative look; yet this very nervousness is also their virtue. They give his forms, built up of tiny strokes, a quivering inner life. Compared with Guston, Ben Nicholson's mentholated abstractions are the essence...
...responsibility "to discover, speak and teach the truth, however difficult and unpopular this may be to others," says the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. "One cannot search for the truth with a closed mind or without the right to question and doubt at every step," says University of Chicago President George Beadle, who in his time has found a lot of truth...
...reliable enough to turn loose, at least for testing's sake, on a segment of the general public. In the next year Chrysler will circulate 50 hand-built models among 200 carefully selected motorists to record their experiences; if the car passes the test, it will be another step toward an innovation that may yet transform both the auto and oil industries...
...profits 25% to $9,288,000. Its basic position is good: it has no debts, $117 million in working capital and a fourth-generation-seedling in Vice President Weyerhaeuser, 36,* who is ready to take over when his uncle, Chairman Frederick K. Weyerhaeuser, 68, and President Norton Clapp, 57, step down. Trained in Weyerhaeuser tradition since birth, George has the outlook of an executive prepared to wait, if not 80 years, at least 40 for his trees to grow. "We don't go out and shoot ourselves over one bad year," he says. "We're going...