Word: summing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance of Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who was widely dismissed as an amiable nonentity when he took office less than a year ago. Home has developed parliamentary agility. He has made the right tactical decisions, notably to risk several by-elections that he could have avoided; in sum they did not turn out badly for the Tories. He has been stumping the country, giving 29 rather tepid speeches and telling stories from the family joke book compiled by his wife. But his quiet jauntiness and aristocratic charm have gone over splendidly, while Laborite Harold Wilson's mixture...
...pits and a steadily pond. Both pits and pond been used for the disposal of ra wastes, so an 8-ft. chain-link fringed with barbed wire keeps people away from the dangers. Unmanned monitor stations, looking like small refrigerators packed with instruments, keep for signs of trouble. Last sum some of the monitors began to give high readings. One reported than one roentgen per hour, and takes an accumulated dose of only roentgens to kill...
...caricatures to luminous cauldrons of color (see opposite page); at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, he won a gold medal with a straightforward painting of two horses ridden by naked girls on a beach. That, and learned foot notes in art history books, have been the sum of his recognition until now. But two new shows in Paris, one by Dealer Louis Carré, who years ago bought scads of the artist's works for peanuts, and another by the Galeríe Karl Flinker, reveal that Kupka thought through and defined abstractionism as early...
...this sum, which will come from G.E. revenues abroad to avoid strain on the U.S. balance of payments, G.E. gets a 49% interest in Machines Bull's research and manufacturing facilities and 51% of its sales company. Most important, G.E. obtains a secure European base from which to battle comfortably ensconced IBM for a continental computer market expected to reach $3 billion in sales by 1970. No sooner had the French discussions ended last week than G.E. executives moved on to Milan to extend that base. Italy's Olivetti, which makes small computers and office machines...
Paintings, in sum, no longer have to be wallflowers, or even good little children who should be seen and not heard. But one voice at the gallery opening could be heard making a plaintive request: "Can someone please turn that painting down...