Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris plane crash in 1962, the center opened last month with a splendid exhibition of 59 paintings and drawings loaned by Paris museums. Alas for good intentions, the building itself has a cold, pretentious look and is, in effect, a massive box with a portico of sticklike, white concrete columns tacked on to suggest the Parthenon-or a Southern plantation mansion. "The result is Caricature Classicism," wrote the New York Times critic, Ada Louise Huxtable, "or Running Scared Modern...
Last August, during an evening service at the white frame Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name at Big Stone Gap, Va., Oscar Pelfrey. 65, stood before the congregation holding a pair of writhing timber rattlesnakes. "I believe, Jesus, O Jesus, I believe-thank you, Jesus!" cried Pelfrey, a lay minister of the church. Suddenly, one of the rattlers struck him on the left temple. Taken home, he refused medical attention and died six hours later...
Bitter Exception. Any such solution is certainly anathema to the present Administration, would probably be distasteful to the next. Humphrey has said he is "determined" to keep joblessness at a minimum; Nixon vows to fight inflation "without increasing unemployment." In Washington, Chief White House Economic Adviser Arthur Okun took exception to the view that braking measures would have to be continued for very long. Inflation, he warned, might be less of a hazard than a prolonged slowdown, which could bring on "a stall and perhaps a tailspin...
...largest manufacturer, the company has long fretted over the possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...
Fade Out. The largest independent U.S.. tube manufacturer, National Video suffered the classic one-product-company disaster. Seizing on glowing industry predictions of a surge in color TV sales, Cole decided to phase out production of black-and-white tubes, on which he was losing money, and switch to color. In 1965, he floated a $12,095,000 stock issue to bankroll expansion. Orders for color tubes from Motorola, Admiral and other set makers poured in, rocketing 1966 sales to $89 million. Profits reached $7,300,000 compared with the previous year...