Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer a vast and profitable export market. On paper at least, trade between the Latin lands and the Reds is indeed on the rise. In effect between various Latin American and Communist-bloc countries are a score of bilateral trade pacts calling for exchange of an estimated $500 million worth of goods in 1955-an imposing total considering that Latino-Red trade in 1953 amounted to only $70 million. But some flinty U.S. Government figures made public last week indicate that doing business with the Reds is hardly the road to prosperity. Items...
...Uruguay shipped $19 million worth of meat and wool to the Soviet Union in 1954, but the oil, coal, steel and machinery agreed upon by Russian negotiators never showed up. In fact, no Soviet goods at all arrived in Uruguay except $22,600 worth of Pharmaceuticals. At year's end the Russians settled up-but in sterling, which Uruguay could have earned for itself in the first place...
...amusingly played by Diane Cilento) the obstacle. The real obstacles are Troy's idealists, who particularly idealize war; its elderly poets, who love celebrating young men's deaths; its common people, who are spoiling for a fight; its international lawyers, for whom a legalistic victory is well worth an international cataclysm. Finding Troy useless, Hector turns to Greece, to the worldly-wise Ulysses (played impeccably by Walter Fitzgerald). Though thinking wars unpreventable, Ulysses vows this time to prevent one. But a warmongering poet whom Hector angrily throttles cries out that Greek Ajax has throttled him; Ajax is mauled...
...weeks has lengthened into seven years. Contemplating his handiwork, Bayne remarks: "Every period since then we've put more money into the show, and, to tell the truth, it's millions of dollars a year. I don't know if it's worth it any more, but there you are: Sullivan is Mercury, Mercury is Sullivan...
Time was when every young American painter dreamed of making the pilgrimage to Paris, where he could shape his style under the influence of the great French masters. Today a growing number of U.S. expatriates are coming home convinced that there is no longer much contemporary European painting worth the compliment of imitation. Most recent example: San Francisco-born Lawrence Calcagno, 39, whose first one-man show in New York was on exhibit last week at the Martha Jackson Gallery...