Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly $750,000, The Fortune Teller by the belatedly discovered 17th century French master, Georges de La Tour. Redmond himself spotted this buy, but how the export license was arranged has never been revealed. When the Met wants something, it can pounce like a cat. Recently a trusted art dealer discovered a 16th century German chessboard...
Only two scheduled shows are not based on anybody's biography, novel, play, magazine piece, film or war. In I Had a Ball, Buddy Hackett will play a Freudian fortune teller on Coney Island. Clairvoyance looms large in the other original, the long-awaited Alan Jay Lerner-Burton Lane collaboration, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Barbara Harris, who was the sensation of Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . ., plays a girl with extrasensory perception...
...Edward Teller, nuclear physicist...
...comes off, Americans feel naked and vulnerable outside their cars, and much Yankee ingenuity has been expended to make this unnecessary. First came the carhop, with a four-course meal at the rolling down of a window, and the motel, followed by the drive-in movie and the curbside teller's cage. Last month Macy's announced plans for a department store flanked by a spiral ramp to enable customers to park within a few yards of the counter they want to visit (TIME, April 10). And last week San Francisco saw the opening of a $29 million...
...articles from the leading scientists of the world. Its admonitory pages bristled with urgent crusades: for disarmament and against military control of the atom, for world government and against overclassification of military secrets. From the start the young magazine boasted authors whose names were international currency: Einstein, Szilard, Oppenheimer, Teller, Urey, Beadle...