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...even Petrobrás' operational boss is very happy with its showing. He is blunt, able U.S. Oil Geologist Walter Link, 56, once chief geologist for Standard Oil (N.J.), who was lured out of semi-retirement in 1955 by a tax-free salary of $100,000, plus the promise of a free hand. He has put together 15 crack geologic field parties, ten gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some...
...most energetically carried on the crusade was a Dominican monk, Father Marie-Alain Couturier (TIME, June 20, 1949 et seq.). Before his death in 1954, he sought out artists in their studios, urged them to try their talents at sacred art in modestly abstract and semi-abstract styles. The first significant experiment was the installation of windows by famed Georges Rouault in the small modern Alpine church at Assy. It proved so successful that the way was paved for others, including windows of Jean Bazaine and Fernand Léger at Audincourt, and Matisse's chapel at Vence. Today...
...semi-amateur Tufts actors at least work earnestly in Laurents' behalf. Regrettably, director Frank B. Hanson evidently has a predilection for a style of delivery and gesture that went out years...
...industry in the early 30s when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price to 25? and promptly had a boffo success. The magazine now clears $43,000 an issue...
Tufts Arena Theatre at Medford, a twenty-minute drive from the Square, offers a weekly show by a semi-professional company. The Reluctant Debutante will appear through July 5, and student tickets for all performances can be bought for a small...