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...struck," said Geneva's Le Courrier, "by the extraordinary ensemble of these four musicians who have come from Chicago with something other than corned beef in their suitcases." Wrote Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk: "The highest praise can scarcely suffice . . . They have made us aware that along with the harshly materialistic, there is another America." In Braunschweig, West Germany, the Goslarsche Zeitung critic ran out of superlatives: "How can one write criticism when the whole evening was without a flaw?" Acclaim awaited the quartet in small towns as well as big: In Sweden's Malmo...
...human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory. The human figure is the image of all men and of one man. It contains all and it can express all." So says Leonard Baskin, whose latest and best carving sat in state at the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, Mass., last week. Entitled Seated Man with Owl, it was a proud new acquisition for one of the nation's finest little museums, fell to Smith's lot because Baskin happens to teach there...
...Eastern Seaboard supermarkets last week, bargain-hungry housewives bought choice sirloin steak at 69? a Ib. and heavily marbled porterhouse at 79?-and impatiently demanded more when supplies temporarily ran short. Out on the broad Midwest ranges, cattlemen were not so happy. Beef prices have been sliding for months, are expected to stay low most of this year. On ten major Midwestern markets from Denver to Chicago, grass-fed steers that brought 28½? per Ib. in May sold for only 23? in December. In Kansas City, choice cattle slipped from 31? per Ib. in midsummer to 27¾? last...
Though A.S.R. is the second largest (after Gillette) razor-blade manufacturer in the U.S., until recently it has suffered from unimaginative marketing policies. With its extensive advertising, promotion and consumer-research programs, Philip Morris hopes to beef up A.S.R. sales; other consumer-product possibilities for the new combine are candy, shaving creams and men's toiletries...
These days, Latin America accounts for 40% of Starr's business, the Far East 30%, and the rest of the world the remainder. His organization has invested heavily to help beef up the economy of the countries where it does business. Starr's fast-growing Philippine American Life subsidiary has built middle-income housing in the islands, has also financed modern factory sites. His latest project: Philippine American is constructing model agricultural units to teach Filipino farmers better ways to boost crop yields...