Word: 60s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build a first-rate collection of old masters. (He stayed on in Florence to become the world's foremost authority on Renaissance art.) At the turn of the century, Mrs. Jack started construction of an Italian palace in the marshes on the outskirts of Boston. Already in her 60s, she joined workmen on the job, employed a cornetist to summon her foremen for conferences...
...unlike the habitués of Wall Street, those of 57th Street (and of the East 60s and "70s, to which many galleries have recently migrated) are usually just looking. With a good visual memory and a will for the work, any looker can build a splendid art museum in his own mind-where feet never tire and the lighting is good. Among New York's candidates for such imaginary museums this week were the works shown on these pages. Their quality (and lack of it), as well as their extraordinary range, were typical of the New York...
MISSISSIPPI RIVER shipping is nearing a flood stage. Barge shipments between Cairo, Ill. and St. Louis last year reached 15,942,000 tons, up 20% from 1952, and seven times the tonnage during steamboating's golden era (the 1850s and '60s). Current shipments (mostly oil, gas, coal and grain) are bigger than...
With his blazing game Snead helped to drive the nation's golf scores down from the low 705 to the low 60s. (Improved equipment-notably the steel shaft and the larger ball, and such gadgets as the power mower and the fairway sprinkler systems-helped.) Sam Snead, with his own particular style and corn-pone personality, was something new in combat golf. For years the game had been dominated by English styles. With the great American hitters-including Snead-golf had got out of its Oxford bags...
...thousands of Chinese students and refugees now living in the U.S., the mansion in Manhattan's East 60s called China House is more than a meeting place and a touch of home. For the last 2? years, the China Institute in America has also been running a placement bureau, has so far been able to find jobs of various kinds for more than 700 expatriate Chinese. But last week the institute sadly reported that its task has only begun. Of the 6,000-odd refugees, hundreds are aging intellectuals whose plight is desperate and whose talents are going...