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Though the influence of El Greco can be seen in the upward sweep of one of his rare religious paintings, The Virgin Placing the Chasuble on Saint Ildefonso (see color), Velásquez' style, stripped of the mannerism of his predecessors, was essentially his own. In his early years, when he painted scenes of ordinary life around him, his palette was somber; color was less important to him than the play of light and shadow and the arrangement of forms. His paintings rarely told a story, and whatever action there might be seemed almost always suspended. Yet his tipplers...
Hamilton billed the deal as the biggest sale since World War II. It pushes Communist China from nothing to third among Canada's grain customers (behind Britain and Japan), and will probably keep West Coast handlers busy until fall clearing the shipment, which will take upward of 100 ships to move...
...mining and cattle town of 12,000, reported that 20.3% of its work force was job hunting. After the second best year in automotive history, Detroit was anxiously eying a growing backlog of unsold compacts in showrooms and on snow-packed car lots. The cost of living edged upward by one-tenth of 1% in December, bringing it to a record high. The stock market was strong but erratic: rails drooped badly even while American Telephone & Telegraph shares reached an alltime peak...
...after mid-1960 dips. While new orders are still running behind retail sales, the forecasting firm figures that they are reverting to the closely similar pattern the two have held for years (see chart), and expects a further rise. It also feels that apparel sales are bound to turn upward. Reason: they have kept pace for years with disposable income, which is now well above sales. Said Commodity Corp.'s President J. Carvel Lange: "Recent behavior of new orders and sales-a favorable relation of orders to sales, with both in a rising trend-is the first encouraging hint...
...reported, for instance, that a third of U.S. high school students major in music), the U.S. record of musical growth is an impressive one. There are about 60,000 music instructors who teach in schools and colleges today, as compared with perhaps 1,500 in 1920. There are upward of 50,000 school bands, 40,000 orchestras, 150,000 choruses. On one point, however, the Germans can take comfort: all that training has yet to produce the equivalent of even one of the Three...