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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, though, Lyndon Johnson has learned that delicate diplomatic maneuverings can only be endangered by extravagant window dressing. He waged last winter's peace offensive, as Columnist Max Lerner noted, "as if he wanted his Texas yell to be heard over the rooftops of the world." Now, despite the spectacular advance billing for the Manila conference, the Administration's dealings with the Communist world and America's emerging allies in Asia are being conducted in sober, muted tones...
John Henry Twachtman began his artistic career painting milkmaids and ruined castles on window shades. By the time of his death in 1902, at the age of 49, he had one of the most unshaded visions in U.S. painting. Twachtman observed nature directly, capturing its twinkling textures in a low key as delicately as Debussy études...
...sign currently in the window of the shop expalins that "in recent extended negotiations with Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Willard Wirtz, secretary of Labor, were we persuaded not to aggravate the current inflationary trends in the national economy? Yes! Haircut prices shall remain the same...
Critics are quick to point out that over the years the tax-exempt publications have won numerous influential friends. National Geographic, for example, has many VIPs on its board of trustees. "Generally," says former Commissioner Caplin, "such boards are window dressing." But, he adds, they serve to make Government investigators reviewing the tax status of such organizations "very cautious." Caplin, a lawyer who now represents the National Tax Equality Association, says that the investigators "are certainly not unaware of the line-up and the numbers of the players...
Signature Window. Breuer's problem began when he was handed a small corner plot only 104 ft. by 125 ft. To create within five stories a total floor space seven times as great as the site, he proceeded much like a Sardinian baker, who, with every piece of dough he subtracts, adds it back some place else in the loaf. Thus to compensate for space lost by the indoor-outdoor sculpture garden and the host of first-floor functional requirements, from coat racks and publications desk to unloading platforms, Breuer designed cantilevered upper floors to produce progressively larger galleries...