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...years Collector Haffenreffer has bought scores of the ancient figures for his private museum. He refuses to put a price on his collection, but the 22 figures he has lent M.I.T. are valued at $25,000, and the price will go up as more & more of the old chieftains disappear from the U.S. scene...
...free country, and people will not be pushed around by educators") but to improve the high schools. "The false antithesis between education for the gifted and education for all American youth must be resolved . . . Then one demand for a further increase in private independent education will largely disappear...
...first civilian products to disappear after Korea was the white-wall tire, that symbol of what economists*call "conspicuous consumption." Last week NPA told rubbermen they could make whitewalls again, a sign that conspicuous civilian production was almost back...
Through the years, however, productions have become increasingly elaborate and today, at the Society prepares for the American premiere of Handel "Semele," it faces the problem of making the heroine disappear in a flash of lightning...
Googie architecture, says HOUSE & HOME, is "Modern Architecture Uninhibited ... an art in which anything and everything goes-so long as it's modern ... To the inventions of the modern engineer Googie adds all of Popular Mechanics, [including] walls that are hinged and roll out on casters, doors that disappear into the ground, overhead lights that cook the hamburger...