Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...graphic arts were very little in evidence in this year's exhibit. Twenty-nine sculptors had works shown, but these were of lower quality than usual. One especially intriguing item, though, was Richard Boyce's "Fall of Icarus," made of steel, polymer, and ivory. And the Festival's over-all Grand Prize went to Marianna Pineda's "Prelude," a life-size representational bronze of a supine woman about to go into labor; the presence of a bit of covering drapery left the viewer with the impression that the sculptress (and perhaps the subject) wanted to eat her cake and have...
...first stage of the project, a 12 story nutrition building, will be started the Fall. The Francis A. Countway , second part of the plans, will to be started soon. The interiors of Medical School buildings will be rebuilt, and, as the final parts the project, a new "hospital complex" a large garage will be constructed...
HIGHER PORK PRICES are expected this fall following farmers' 16% cutback in the spring pig crop in widespread rebellion against last year's low prices...
...today -and are still climbing. Last week Rambler delivered its 300,000th unit for the 1960 model year, is running two months ahead of last year's record production and chalking up sales 25% over the last model year. In two years Romney has doubled production. By fall, American Motors will be able to turn out 625,000 compacts a year. Romney expects to need every bit of capacity: though he first optimistically predicted 1,750,000 compact sales in 1960, the industry now thinks the figure may reach...
Actual industry sales of major appliances are running 4.2% behind those last year, estimates Hotpoint, and that was the second-best year in the industry's history. Main reason for the cutbacks now is excessive dealer inventories. The manufacturers overproduced and the dealers overstocked last fall in anticipation of the steel strike. Now dealers want to reduce their inventories before reordering. Since retail buying is holding up fairly well, most appliance makers expect a pickup in orders the last half of the year as dealer inventories drop...