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...Grey Utopia. Last weekend, with Poole and 32 other top Tories who were summoned to the Prime Minister's country home, Macmillan started drafting the party's broad, long-term program of social and economic reform. Its theme, said Macmillan, will be "Modernize-not Nationalize." In his fiercest attack on Labor in many months, the Prime Minister charged in a speech to Glasgow Tories that "the Socialists have nothing to offer except old threats supported by sly promises." The Opposition, declared Macmillan, still clings to its "old-hat" view of a socialist utopia, in which "everybody is more...
...grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident precision and his even voice snaps with authority, but his very words seem part of an alien language-a communication designed solely for his colleagues...
...flag." The problem was to turn it into "a visual situation only. How could it be altered so that it could become a painting?" Sometimes, Johns painted the flag in its normal colors, and the flag became flag first and then painting. Sometimes he made it all grey or all white, and made the painting appear first. He was also mesmerized by the seeming permanency of the flag: "I stopped painting it when they changed the number of stars...
...giant minds of the television industry took thought. Time-wise, there was one big gap: from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. the nation's screens were pitch grey. Manhattan's station WCBS-TV, the biggest single moneymaker in the country, took the problem in hand, ran it up a couple of flagpoles, and brought back an old glory of a solution: the Late Late Late Late Show...
From a fortresslike grey stone headquarters beside the Thames near Parliament, the directors of Britain's largest nongovernment enterprise supervise an imperial giant with bases in 48 nations. Led by lean, nimble Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 59. they run their decentralized, globe-circling operation with the same easy writing-paper informality with which it was founded. That and a tigerlike lunge for new business last week enabled I.C.I, to announce 1962 sales that rose 5% to $1.6 billion and earnings that jumped 14% to $91.8 million...