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...groups believe in centering their efforts on the United Nations. Atlantic Union, for example, was basically an extension of Streit's proposal for a union of the Atlantic democracies, with a boost from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Far removed from the Atlantic Union Committee is another group which concentrated on work outside the U.N. Charter--the "People's World Convention." Meeting in Geneva in 1951, the embryonic convention wanted to bring together a giant world assembly composed of one unofficial delegate elected by every 1,000,000 inhabitants. The state of Tennessee actually sent two delegates, but attendance...
...snow man. But Sardinian-born Costantino Nivola, 44, has found a way to turn his vacation-time doodlings on the beaches of Long Island into one of the liveliest and most pleasant new sculptured ideas of the decade. Last week Nivola's growing reputation got another big boost. National Memorial Park, across the river from Washington in Falls Church, Va., which already boasts the late Carl Milles' 38-figure Fountain of Faith (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 27), unveiled its second major sculpture grouping: Nivola's $50,000 memorial fountain dedicated to the four World War II Army...
ATOMIC PLANE will get a big boost from a new test reactor to be built by the Government at Sandusky, Ohio at a cost of $4,500,000. The nuclear reactor will not be a prototype plane engine, but will be used to supply data to General Electric, United Aircraft and Curtiss-Wright, which are working on an atomic engine, Boeing and General Dynamics, which are working on the plane to carry...
...prices this year. Said the department: "It appears that much of the general price adjustment . . . has taken place." Despite all the outcry, flexible supports seem to be working for some crops. The once huge stocks of dairy products have been whittled down to size (TIME, April 25). With a boost from the Government through a low-grade-beef buying program, the beef producers recovered from the worst of their price slides...
...subsidiary of the British-Dutch Unilever empire; after long illness; in Boston. After his rise from general manager and treasurer, quiet, publicity-shy Countway raised sales from less than $1,000,000 in 1913 to $250 million in 1944. He invented B.O. during a golf game to boost his product, Lifebuoy; presided over the debuts of Lux Toilet Soap, Rinso, Swan and Spry; in 1939 received the highest salary with bonuses ($469,713) outside Hollywood...