Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toward Manhattan. At first everyone, including much of the Danish press, pooh-poohed Denmark's decision, and some nations openly hooted. A spokesman for the French Atomic Energy Commissariat pronounced it "extraordinary and absurd in view of the fact that the crew has lived aboard the Skate for so long with no sign of contamination." Officials in The Netherlands and West Germany said they would be delighted to receive Skate. Washington fired off a barrage of reassurances. Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover declared that ''there has been a review of all possible mishaps," and that the submarine...
There was also the threat of an auto strike. The labor leaders were glumly aware that the U.S. public, annoyed by rising prices, would take a dark view of a pacemaking U.A.W. strike for new wage boosts. The Executive Council went ahead anyhow, named a seven-man strike committee to "give practical support, organizationally and financially," if Walter Reuther's Auto Workers go on strike...
...holidays, according to Alsatian-born Author-Artist Tomi Ungerer. "Whatever your profession," he writes in Scope Weekly (a digest of medical news published for Upjohn Co.), "after some years of practice your mind is inevitably influenced. Soon every day's activities are considered from your own point of view, and even on holidays you can't stay away from routine obsessions. The meteorologist will keep searching the sky, and the geologist the earth. And it is the same for the physician." So Ungerer, who takes in vacation vistas with an artist's eye for perspective, drew some...
...asking, 'Are you going away this summer?' and got responses. So I took a gallery, cleared it out and put the paintings in." The Met has continued this policy every summer, given special billing to six summer collectors' shows since 1949. This year's, on view this week in eight newly added Met galleries, is twice as large as any of the past-145 paintings from 25 collections, including many top-ranking masterpieces rarely shown in public...
Along the oil-soaked quays of Hamburg, West Germany's biggest port, 200,000 people cheered wildly last week as the S.S. Hanseatic hove into view, ending its maiden voyage to New York exactly on schedule. For Hamburg and all of West Germany, the voyage was indeed cause for celebration. The newest, biggest (30,029 gross tons), fastest (21 knots) liner under the German flag, the Hanseatic represents a mighty step forward in a mighty comeback for West Germany's merchant marine. For the first time, total tonnage has climbed above prewar levels...