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...Three Ms. Last week Thailand's rural revolution was in full swing. Even as the first monsoons turned the dusty red roads of the northeast into glutinous scars, hundreds of Mobile Development Unit personnel were crisscrossing the area in Jeeps, junks and oxcarts, spreading Western technology and anti-Communist temerity like spring rice. The propaganda was even fun. Through the northeast's villages rumbled government-sponsored Mobile Information Teams, carrying everything but a merry-go-round. While some teammates distributed schoolbooks, pencils and pictures of King Bhumibol, others tended a queue of sick peasants. Over all blared...
...Vanderbeek showed Ford three of his five-to-ten-minute "Visible Fill'ms"-each no doubt having some subtle message that anyone with millions to give away would instantly grasp. In A La Mode, for example, a girl carries her breasts on a tray with miscellaneous fruits. An automobile drives up hill and down dale across a pair of giant breasts. A woman's face comes off, revealing an opera .house inside her head. A bird comes out of a pore in her back...
...reticent. Unlike retired Predecessor Charles H. Kellstadt, whose job he took over two years ago, Cushman delegates responsibility liberally and treats subordinates genially, but keeps a cold eye on profit and loss reports. "Men, merchandise, methods and money," he is fond of saying, "are the four Ms of Sears. Men come first...
...only 12 clay courts now available at the College are presently reserved for the use of the varsity and freshman ds. Barnaby said he thought the ms would also be given priority on indoor courts on afternoons during spring and fall tennis seasons. Other people might play in the mornings, or at , he noted...
...Marin showed the water still at boiling point but gave his textured waves a solidity that adds weight and menace to their churnings. In Morning Scene, painted eleven years later, Marin broke up the scene with bold black lines that are almost calligraphic. The mountains become a series of Ms; the harsh foreground is a powerful scribble. The right angle poised in the sky, while extending the mountainous skyline, also does a good deal more. It could symbolize a sail, a rainbow, or even the basic order lying beneath nature's turbulent surface. It is the first thing that...