Word: tiling
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When the last tile in the mosaic was complete, Aub unveiled his masterpiece at the elegant Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1958. Most of the Campalans paintings in the accompanying exhibition were snapped up. Said Famed Muralist David Siqueiros, thoroughly duped: "I knew Campalans well in Paris. Orozco liked him very much." A few weeks later Aub confessed his hoax. Mexicans fumed, then laughed embarrassedly...
...with a 20-lb. knocker that sports Venus and Neptune hanging from the jowls of a metacanine beast. If you walk in hurriedly, you are instantly outdoors again in a huge courtyard, having passed through a small hall with flooring that is a mixture of Pennsylvania linoleum and Spanish tile. The courtyard is full of rosebushes, boxwoods, a grape arbor, and mirrors on an inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed with gallons of champagne. At one end is a playpen...
...travel-weary U.S. motorist has been conditioned to think of food-and a chance to let the kids out of the car-when he spots a roof of bright orange tile along the highway. This "landmark for hungry Americans" is the trademark of Howard Dearing Johnson, a onetime cigar salesman who has become a part of Americana (teenagers call his places "Hojos") by catering to the common denominator of U.S. taste and haste. Johnson, 63, not only controls the world's largest restaurant chain (607), but has set up motor lodges in 24 states, now sells frozen and canned...
...find anything extraordinary in the child. Even flying did not capture him immediately. He learned to pilot a plane to while away his period of army service, liked it despite a training crash that cracked his skull. For three years after he was demobilized. Saint-Ex clerked for a tile firm...
Chapman's protectionist plea would find ready support from a small but growing number of U.S. producers pinched by foreign competition. Manufacturers of typewriters, fishing tackle, brass plumbing and floor tile, along with shrimp fishermen and horseradish-root growers, are asking the Government to check foreign competition. Such successful Japanese imports as transistor radios, umbrellas and chinaware are rising. So are imports of scissors and shears from Italy and West Germany, leather gloves from France and fish meal (for fertilizer) from Canada and Peru...