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Although containers have been used by a few U.S. ship operators for a decade, the system has really taken hold only lately. Last week the Moore-McCormack freighter Mormacahair steamed through the stormy Atlantic to Antwerp with that ocean's first regularly scheduled commercial container cargo. In mid-March, U.S. Lines will begin weekly sailings from New York to Europe with the first of four vessels specially fitted to stack containers in their holds like bricks in a wall. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines is converting two ore carriers for container service. San Francisco-based American President Lines last week...
...early 30s, the Daniel reflects the influence of Italy, where he had studied for eight years. But Rubens added his own naturalism. In part, this comes from Rubens' good fortune in having live models close at hand to study. There were no zoos in Italy, but Antwerp, where Rubens lived, boasted one, and there he was able to sketch lions in their coiled-spring power. And it is within the painting's faithfulness to nature that the miracle becomes more believable. Remains of their former meals lie scattered in the foreground. Amidst their curling manes and rippling bodies...
...Born in Antwerp, Belgium, Haar received his L.L.B. from Harvard in 1949. He has written several books on land use planning, including Land Planning Law in a Free Society (1951) and Land...
...American image is obvious in such European banking centers as Frankfurt, Antwerp, Zurich, Geneva and Milan. The Chase, New York's First National City Bank, the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co, and California's Bank of America led the way. The movement has grown so strong that such banks as Chicago's Continental Illinois and Boston's First National are also opening European branches or buying into European banks. U.S. branches are now scattered across the Continent; seven opened last year alone...
Nowhere did the bourgeoisie bubble with more prosperity than in The Netherlands-and newly rich burghers invested much of their wealth in art. Patronage grew so great that as early as 1560 in Antwerp alone, there were more than three times as many working artists as there were butchers. Today most painters of that period are forgotten, but occasionally an unfamiliar name such as Hendrick Terbrugghen establishes a new reputation more than three centuries after his death...