Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often does, pomp concealed a certain lack of substance. When revolutionary Iraq walked out of the Baghdad Pact last March, the remaining members along the strategic Northern Tier of the Middle East-Turkey, Iran and Pakistan -were badly shaken. To reassure them, the U.S. hastily signed bilateral defense treaties with each. (Unlike Britain, which is a full partner, the U.S. has consistently refused formal membership in the pact for fear of stirring up new resentment in India, Israel and most of the Arab states.) With this encouragement, the pact members moved their headquarters from Baghdad to Ankara, and rustled...
...Matter of Muscle. But even in its new guise, the pact retained many of its old weaknesses. Though it has to its credit the improvement of transport and communications lines between its Middle Eastern members, CENTO still has no unified military command; the real muscle guarding the Northern Tier is supplied by the bilateral U.S. treaties. And CENTO still has a soft spot in Iran, where Russian pressure alternates between threats and blandishments in an effort to force Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi into the neutralist path...
ALMOST a century ago a Belgian knight named Fritz Mayer van den Bergh began collecting art objects. He concentrated on Northern Renaissance examples, amassed some 1,000 pieces of high quality before his death in 1901. To hold the collection as a memorial, his mother founded the Mayer van den Bergh Museum. Tucked away in Antwerp's banking district and unchanged in 55 years, the museum is open every day except Monday in the summertime, and on even-numbered days all winter, charges only 5 francs (10?) admission. Yet the number of visitors annually is under...
Reigning spirit of the museum, as of the Northern Renaissance, is Pieter Brueghel the Elder, represented by two paintings: Mad Margaret and Flemish Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand...
...York regularly include the bald eagle, who rides the ice floes down the Hudson as far as Dyckman Street. Muskrat houses can be found in the lower end of the Van Cortlandt swamp; the eastern cottontail is common in the fields and thickets of Staten Island; the northern brown snake inhabits Central Park...