Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...growing fascination in Europe and the U.S. Yet experts still put the number of first-rate U.S. collections at fewer than 25. One such collection went on display last week at Manhattan's Rockefeller-founded Museum of Primitive Art-and proved a superb demonstration of what a man who is not himself an artist can do when he falls in love with an art form...
...tiny ivory Eskimo looks as if it might have been carved by Henry Moore; a clay Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts of a woman. One of the rarest pieces is an oil dish from the Fiji Islands: it looks like a modern sculpture of a punch-drunk goon...
Among the satellites so far shot into orbit, perhaps the most useful to man was Tiros I, the "weather eye," whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of its predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...
Died. General Phao Sriyanond, 52, one of a triumvirate that toppled the Thailand regime in 1947 (a second member, Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, still rules the country), who frequently consulted astrologists while enhancing his twin sources of Siamese power-at least 20 prosperous business ventures, a 40,000-man national police force more powerful than the army; of a heart attack; in exile in Geneva...
...Man Boom. Cherubic Bill Tabler, 45, who is also chairman of the codes committee of the American Institute of Architects, is an old battler against outmoded building codes. Since 1946, when he began specializing in hotels, he has built $100 million worth of hotels around the world. His latest: the Ponce in Puerto Rico. He now has another $200 million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials and methods...