Word: tins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALEXANDER CALDER - Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Next month Calder's mobiles will take to the air at the Guggenheim. Meanwhile, some 30 circus drawings, all done before he started launching tin and wire into upper living space, make a fitting prelude to the retrospective. Perls also has a few mobiles. Through...
...assigning individual scholars to one or two books apiece, the editors hope to avoid some of the pitfalls that plague other modern versions. Bibles done by committee, such as the still unfinished New English Bible, often muffle their textual accuracy in tin-eared, corporate prose; one-man translations-Monsignor Ronald Knox's Roman Catholic version, for example-are often pleasing to read, but their eccentricities and errors make scholars wince. The credentials of the Anchor translators, who include seven Catholics, 15 Protestants and five Jews, are beyond dispute. Sweden's Bo Reicke, 50, who did The Epistles...
Inflationary Flutters. Such strong demand is added temptation for the steel makers to post a long-sought price hike after the election-especially when fears of inflation do not seem to be deterring other industries from raising prices. In the past few weeks, prices have increased for copper, zinc, tin, chemicals, paper and rubber. Viewing all this, and perhaps anxious to test a harbinger of overall rise, U.S. Steel and Inland Steel last week increased by 17% the price of the reinforcing bars widely used in construction...
...tin can, that 154-year-old companion of the housewife, is undergoing an uncanny transformation. The pattern of change began a while ago, but it has picked up such speed that it is affecting both habits in the home and the future of an entire industry. Millions of cans no longer require keys or openers; they flip, zip, pop or peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses...
Died. Nacio Herb Brown, 68, composer of such enduring Tin Pan arias as You're an Old Smoothie, Singing in the Rain, Pagan Love Song and Should I Reveal?; of cancer; in San Francisco...