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...painting divides into two epochs: before and after the Armory Show of 1913. That year, from the vaulted bastion of Manhattan's 69th Regiment, Marcel Duchamp's stroboscopic Nude Descending a Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
...steel by Japan's expanding construction industry, and MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL (TIME cover, Feb. 23) rose from 74th to 56th with its fast-moving radios and TV sets. In addition, there were four Japanese newcomers to the 100, including highly automated KOBE STEEL WORKS, which leaped into 69th place...
...stockholders of General Electric, Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner clearly had some explaining to do about the conviction of 16 executives for price fixing (see below). As the company's 69th annual meeting convened in Syracuse last week, Cordiner got right down to it, and with no apology in his voice. "It has been said by some." he said, "that I, as chairman and chief executive officer, either knew of these violations and condoned them or that I was derelict in not knowing of them." Neither is true, said Cordiner. "We were diligent in the light of the facts...
Before and during the delivery of the letter, 25 Tocsin members walked up and down a cordoned area down 69th Street from the Embassy, bearing signs reading "the Soviet Union in Challenged to Respond to recent U.S. test ban proposals," and passing out literature. Eighteen rather sympathetic policemen looked on, but at no time did an appreciable crowd gather...
Your altogether delightful and otherwise illuminating article about the King and Queen of Thailand leaves me in the dark about one fascinating particular-the Thai law of succession. You say that King Bhumibol's father "was the 69th child of King Chulalongkorn...