Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...week inaugurated a new, glass-walled Polytechnic School, has fired an artistic rebirth with new schools of sacred art, Afro-Asian studies and theater. Argentine Artist Carybe, who painted the mural in American Airlines' Idlewild terminal (TIME, Aug. 15), has settled in Salvador; Genaro de Carvalho, a leading maker of modern tapestries, lives there. Keeping abreast of the trend, the Catholic Church is pushing completion of its university, with colleges in law, medicine and philosophy already functioning...
JAPANESE APPLIANCES will be sold in U.S. by Matsushita company, with its own dealer organization under its own name. Matsushita, top Japanese appliance maker, will introduce four transistor radio models, sell photoflash bulbs and a photoflash gun, may later also market refrigerators, washing machines and other housewares...
...moments with Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onassis. For a while it seemed that Meneghini, for reasons known only to himself, was heartbroken over Maria's departure, but last week there was a new trill in his ears. It emanated from promising young Silvana Tumicelli, 23, daughter of a furniture maker. Meneghini hopes to launch his new protegee in the style to which Maria grew accustomed, probably in Venice's La Fenice opera house. How will it all end? Said one of Silvana's friends: "She's kind of like Callas-except she doesn't want...
...National Labor Relations Board handed down a historic ruling last week in the longest-and one of the bitterest-major strikes in U.S. labor history. It found Wisconsin's Kohler Co., the nation's third biggest maker of plumbing fixtures, guilty of prolonging a six-year strike against the company by the United Auto Workers. The NLRB found Kohler guilty of unfair labor practices, ordered it to rehire the 1,700 workers discharged after the United Auto Workers called them out on strike-even if it means firing some of the 2,500 nonunion workers that Kohler recruited...
Kindergarten & Bookworms. All these machines are the products of a little-known firm called Farrington Manufacturing Co. of Needham Heights, Mass., an old-line display-box and credit-card maker that has taken a giant step into electronics. Tiny Farrington (1959 gross revenues: $10.9 million) has stolen a march on the nation's giant business machine makers. It is the only U.S. company with scanners in commercial operation, already has 31 reading voraciously for U.S. industry. This week Farrington announced that five insurance companies have ordered optical scanners to solve their premium-billing paperwork problems. Farrington's scanners...