Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anderson Gallery concentrates on graphic works. Different as they are, the exhibitions eloquently recall Gorky's tortured perfectionism. At the Anderson Gallery there are six studies for one oil painting, each showing some refinement that Gorky made of its predecessor. The Janis exhibition, though incomplete, shows what a tireless experimenter...
Nowhere are the issues more fervently debated than in the constituency of North Bombay, where a splenetic and tireless politician is campaigning hard to retain his parliamentary seat. His name is plastered on thousands of opposition posters slapped on tree trunks, buildings and boulders all over North Bombay. The posters show two red bayonets stabbing down from Red China into India; the words are less a slogan than an accusation: "Menon represents China, not India...
Died. James Spencer Love, 65, wiry, tireless chairman of Burlington Industries, which he personally spun from a shoestring into the world's biggest textile maker (1961 sales: $866 million); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a Harvard math professor, Love returned from World War I at 23 with a major's oak leaves and $3,000 in savings, persuaded industry-hungry North Carolinians to bankroll his first textile mill; he pioneered in synthetics and over the years borrowed heavily to buy dozens of companies, often at bargain-basement prices...
...article in the Jan. 13 issue of the New York World Telegram, Segal, who runs 12 miles a day to keep in shape, was described as a "tireless 24-year-old budding young playwright, who would rather win the Boston Marathon than write the next 'My Fair Lady.' Well almost...
Young Galbraith did not feel such diffidence. He studied animal husbandry (which has stood him in good stead as a tireless cow-patter on Indian farm tours), got a Ph.D. in economics at the University of California, became an instructor at Harvard and Princeton, but, through it all, he yearned for politics. He bounced around the Washington agencies, and in his spare time constructed an elaborate system for price regulation. In 1941, when Galbraith's system was published, he was hired by Leon Henderson as an official in the newborn Office of Price Administration, later became OPA deputy administrator...