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Graham fellows in the arts will be free to go back to college, travel abroad, or continue working at home. Only requirement is that they attend a two-month round-table "Institute on the Arts" in Chicago. "What the artist or scholar produces in the year is unimportant," says Director William E. Hartmann, managing partner of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architectural branch in Chicago. "What is important-and this is our goal-is the hope that we can help each recipient further his or her individual artistic development...
...Margherita, she dealt with policy problems, administered consulates and agencies with staffs of more than 1,600. She traveled over 30,000 miles inside Italy, visited more than 30 Italian cities, popped up in towns and villages where ambassadors are never seen, launched ships, opened universities. In a recent two-month period, she saw 69 state visitors and 416 members of U.S. congressional groups, entertained hundreds of other dignitaries in her stately Rome residence, Villa Taverna...
...furnaces operating at better than 100% of capacity, they have more orders on their books than they can handle. Detroit's automakers alone will need enough steel to build an estimated 6,500,000 new cars in 1957, are already cranking up to top production speed. After a two-month lull for model changeover, the auto industry is working overtime to build 38 new cars each minute, plans to work overtime and Saturdays throughout November and December to keep pace with optimistic forecasts of fourth-quarter business...
Feature-Writer (A. P.) Charles Mercer wrote his third and best novel after a two-month visit to the Belgian Congo. The book is packed with just the sort of plot that will fill a wide screen (RKO has bought the rights in a quarter-million-dollar deal), and with the mixture of sex and sincerity that appeals to book clubs (it is the Literary Guild choice for October). But the book also has a keenly felt love of place, and reflects deep wonder about the motives of men and women who contrive their own thahus...
...tightened credit now, there might be a recession or worse. On all sides there is evidence that rising prices, kept in check for four years, are once more threatening the stability of the economy. The cost of living has moved up 1.4% in two months - the biggest two-month increase in four years - and still on the rise. Industrial prices, e.g., for electrical equipment, all types of machinery, are jumping, and the demand for manpower and materials is showing signs of outstripping supply...