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...reported 1959 sales of $1.8 billion, up 9% from last year.) After Deterding set up his U.S. plants, he made a shrewd peace treaty with Jersey Standard. Anxious to consolidate his gains and disturbed by the worldwide price wars of the 20s, he persuaded Jersey and British Petroleum (then Anglo-Iranian Oil) to join him in the famous "AsIs" cartel agreement that carved out worldwide markets and quotas. Before he retired in 1937, he had built Royal Dutch/Shell into a billion-dollar business...
Germain Bazin, chief curator of the Louvre: "Our age is in the act of destroying its artistic patrimony. Modern restorers of the Anglo-Saxon school are inspired by the taste for modern painting. They want old masters to shine like contemporary art, which stresses contrasting tones. Old painting was concerned with harmonies, and the passage of one tone into another through half tones. When
...attache in Athens, Cairo and Alexandria. In 1952, ic was ready to begin the "Big-City Tone Poem" that had been bubbling in his mind for more than a decade, only to lave the Cyprus crisis force him back to press-officer duty amid the tragic rup-;ure of Anglo-Hellenic relationships, which Durrell later movingly described in Bitter Lemons (TIME, March 24, 1958). Finally, in the years 1956-59, beginning in Cyprus and ending in Southern France, Durrell wrote The Alexandria Quartet...
...Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, Adenauer presented Western summit planners with a memorandum declaring that West Berlin is legally a state of the West German Federal Republic. The implication: West Germany has the right to veto any summit decision on Berlin that the Germans find unacceptable. But the Anglo-American view of Berlin's status is that their own rights as World War II victors constitute the only Western legal claim to maintain garrisons in Berlin...
...Author Vance Packard saw it in his bestselling The Status Seekers (TIME, June 8), most Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to sentimentalize their forebears by living in Early American, white clapboard houses. On Christmas Eve, Homeowner Packard took his ease with his wife Virginia and their three children in their 45-year-old, 12-room, two-story, fairly Early American (Federalist), white clapboard house in New Canaan, Conn. At about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide...