Word: posterize
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Recently in Bogota, Candido, now 90, saw mention in a newspaper of someone named Licht. Diligent backtracking from this clue led him to his son Daniel, a Bogotá poster artist with children and grandchildren. After recovering from his astonishment, Daniel took his father to the frail, 82-year-old wife he had last seen 50 years before. In the cool, brick-floored upstairs hall of the Bogota home for the aged where she lived, they tearfully embraced. Then, white-bearded Old Soldier Candido Licht looked at her, his son,-his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren, and spoke with pride...
...Swiss posters aim to please the man in the street, not just persuade him. Recognizing that posters are a public art form as well as an advertising medium the Swiss limit them to reasonable size (35 by 50 inches), restrict their display to appropriate spots, and require that they be changed every fortnight. In addition, the government encourages poster artists with an annual competition...
...last year's prizewinners, two show imaginative extremes of Swiss poster art. Herbert Leupin happily dabbles in a peasant palette of rich, bright colors, applies them with gaiety and wit; his poster for Eptinger mineral water is as bubbly as the drink itself. Prizewinner Hans Erni specializes in such unexpected stunts as turning the reels of a film projector into owlish eyes. Master of a flowing, Picassoesque line, sober-sided Erni works by a simple dictum: "It's the idea that matters...
...Seoul, Colonel Kinney held a press conference and told what had happened in the mansion at Kaesong. In the conference room, the U.N. men found a table with five chairs on each side. There were no pictures of Stalin, no poster propaganda of any kind. The atmosphere was courteous but unbending and stiff; the Communist delegation was composed of a North Korean colonel named Chang Chun San and two lieutenant colonels, one North Korean, one Chinese (plus two interpreters). Chang, a trim man in a green, Russian-style uniform with red shoulder boards, did all the talking for his side...
When the pair emerged on the street the next morning, the Washington cops were scouring the city for them; young Gilbert had gotten to a police station by 8 a.m., had pointed to Irwin's picture on a "Wanted" poster, and told the whole story. Yet no one spotted the fugitive and his captive. Irwin hocked Gilbert's watch and the engagement ring for $15, and forced the girl into a bus. Irwin grew confidential again. He was going to rob a rich uncle in Doylestown, Pa. and "give...