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...three stories high, the top two of which are supported by columns at the center and suspended from roof girders at the outside. The visible columns are sheathed in the same Pentelic marble used on the Parthenon, and in time they will take on the Parthenon's golden tint. A blue ceramic screen en closes the ground floor, and the whole structure is built around a square inner courtyard much as were the houses of ancient Athens, thus combining dignity and friendliness, classic elegance and a certain modern informality...
...books, Hemingway is "that which we know" of World War I, the Lost Generation, the mystique of the bullfight, the Spanish Civil War. One can learn all of this without knowing Hemingway, but once having read him, one can never see these subjects again without some angle or tint of his vision. His best books exist at that rare level at which literature becomes experience...
...efforts to reinvigorate the U.S. economy. Why? Because, said Khrushchev, "Rockefeller" and "Du Pont" won't let him. Confided Columnist Lippmann in a wry aside to his readers: "The view that he is running the Kennedy Administration will be news to Governor Rockefeller. I should add tint Mr. Khrushchev considers me a Republican, which will be news to Mr. Nixon...
...Britain and a trade pact with West Germany. And a fortnight after the U.S. agreement was signed, Guinea's President Touré rose in the U.N. Assembly to criticize Khrushchev's bullying, shoe-thumping tactics. Added up, it all revived the hopes of many that the Red tint in Sékou Touré's cloak of "neutralism" was not necessarily permanent...
...sick of fighting. I decided to grow just crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago's National Chemical & Manufacturing Co. has found one answer for that problem: Luminall Lawn Tint, a green paint that can be used to spray over all those brown spots...