Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Realizing that the figure had a future, Kanovitz abandoned abstraction and went back to his drawing board in earnest. He started clipping magazine pictures, now carries a Pentax camera to snap his own. He likes to think of himself as a film director, casting, arranging and often creating his own characters. The Dance, for example, was inspired by a Derain painting, which was itself inspired by a photograph of off-duty soldiers in a dance hall. Somehow, after the chicken liver and the matzoh-ball soup at a family bar mitzvah, the idea for the painting jelled in Kanovitz...
...quickly deteriorated after that. When an American priest publicly complained about the refusal of the University of Athens to recognize degrees from Holy Cross Orthodox Theological School in Brookline, Mass., ten theologians from the university walked out of the assembly and boycotted the rest of the congress. After Iakovos went out of his way to praise Greece's past democratic political tradition, the country's military regime ordered newspapers to curtail their coverage of the congress. George Papadopoulos, the strongman of the ruling junta, pointedly failed to show up at the climactic banquet, pleading a sprained ankle. Archbishop...
...Word. White House telegrams went to all directors of all steel companies, and the Federal Trade Commission briefly threatened to open an investigation. Over the weekend, the heads of three big defense suppliers-Bethlehem's Martin, C. William Verity of Armco and Thomas Patton of Republic -were summoned to Washington for talks with Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. Before long, their companies were issuing statements that across-the-board did not actually include shell steel, bomb casings, barbed wire and other military items. Defense, for its part, quickly claimed victory...
Last week, moreover, A.M.C. reported that in the first nine months of the fiscal year, it earned $17.7 million, compared with a $48 million loss in the same period in 1967. In the third quarter of 1968, the company went $2.56 million in the red, but only because of a bookkeeping loss in the sale of its last nonautomotive division, appliance-making Kelvinator...
...circumventing a Colorado law prohibiting branch banking. When the Whites suggested last month that five family-owned banks in southern Colorado be included in the holding company, called the First National Bancorporation, the bank replied that it would consider the request only after the new company went into operation...