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...Reading TIME'S cover story on Eero Saarinen (July 2, 1956), he noticed a box headed "The 20th Century Form Givers," was struck by the possibilities of making it the theme of a comprehensive and definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute of Architects' awards (Saarinen cover; Edward D. Stone cover, March 31, 1958), and designed by Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s Professor of Visual Design, Form Givers...
...cars in the show-about 400 in all-sell for less than $3,000. For $4,000 (about the price of a Ford Thunderbird), the auto buyer can have anything but a few top models. Everybody is getting into the merchandising act, moving up, down, and all around to tap a foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines it builds for Britain's royal family, introduced a car specially designed for the U.S. market: a sleek, two-seater Daimler Dart...
...spreading the stock among as many people as possible. Purchasers were limited to five shares apiece; only those with incomes of less than $3,810 a year could subscribe. By tempting the purses of middle-class citizens, the government hopes both to keep them from socialism and to tap the $9.3 billion West Germans have locked up in small savings accounts. The next issue will probably be the giant Viag heavy-industry holding company (coal, aluminum, steel, copper, electric power). By next year the government hopes to get legal complications out of the way, sell Germany's famed Volkswagen...
When the senate rejected his bond-issue plan, Soapy's only hope for getting enough money to meet state payrolls in late April and beyond was to ignore the outcries of veterans' organizations and tap the state's $50 million veterans' trust fund, set up in 1946. Even if he can find a way to get at the trust fund, Soapy will still have to push for tax increases to keep the state solvent. Republicans in the legislature have proposed to blot up the red ink by upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams...
...Tap. In Franklinton, N.C., there were few complaints after state officers raided a still, emptied thousands of gallons of beer and whisky into a stream that fed the town's water supply...