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...There is little appeal in such a pro gram," Hoffman admitted, "but . . . Europe must have dollars to buy goods from us, and if we don't want to give her those dollars, we should let her earn them." To ease the shock, Hoffman suggested some form of direct "relief" for victims of foreign competition. Secretary of State Dean Acheson agreed that "very substantial steps" would be necessary. Said Acheson: "I should not think we could say: 'Well, we must do it and the chips will have to fall, and whoever suffers will have to suffer." I should think...
...tall, bland Milanese with mild brown eyes and a sculptor's muscular hands. Two years ago his works were little known outside of Italy; now, at 49, he is internationally admired. The exhibition of his works which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week was sure to shock some people and deeply move oth ers. It showed that he had earned his belated fame the hard way, with sculptures that were often downright unpleasant...
...such confused company, even such a faintly authoritative canvas as 24-year-old Max Imdahl's third-prize Man of Sorrow came as a shock. Imdahl would rather write novels, he says, "but I'm so much at a loss for words that I find even simple conversation painful. I want to compose songs, but how to do so is beyond me. So I paint." His Man was a flat, featureless, lemon-yellow figure with a broken-looking neck, suspended against a pitch-black background. It could well symbolize the state of art in Germany...
Madame Lulu & God. Back at Lisieux for a refresher course while waiting reassignment is shock-haired, dark-eyed Father Georges Baudry, 31, who has spent the last four years working in the Communist-ridden Normandy parish of Saint Andre. He is not at all discouraged by the fact that in one village of 100 inhabitants he was able to increase the number of regular churchgoers only from one to three. Much more important, he thinks, is that through him the greater part of the village has lost its hostility to the church and is increasingly dubious of Communist propaganda...
...here's that man himself," cried the announcer-"Arthur, the-man-with-the-natural-look, Godfrey !" Wearing his earphones, a swept-up shock of copper hair and a winning, country-boy grin that belied his 46 years, the big-shouldered man at the desk shifted a candy wafer in his mouth and asked plaintively: "Now what am I gonna do with the last half of this Life Saver...