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...rupture split two companies that have been joined at the hip since Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone went camping together in the early years of the 20th century. "All this does is make both look less responsible to the public," says Jim Wangers of Automotive Marketing Consultants Inc. in San Diego...
Several generations ago, even the telephone seemed baffling. In its early days, quick adapters thought they had found the killer app: they used it to call their friends to find out whether their postcards had arrived. ("It has? Great. Bye.") In the first part of the 20th century, the Paris utility pioneered a phone-in opera service. Marcel Proust loved it. He'd dial up from home and someone would hold up a phone next to the stage and, voila, Wagner interactif...
...rupture split two companies that have been joined at the hip since Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone went camping together in the early years of the 20th century. "All this does is make both look less responsible to the public," says Jim Wangers of Automotive Marketing Consultants Inc. in San Diego...
...tomb and her own death all are represented in paintings and sketches in the exhibition, as well as on a variety of decorative objects, including watches, fans and vases. The Renaissance portrayal of the tough and tragic seductress-as derived from the early Romans-has trickled down to the 20th century and beyond...
...phase in the struggle for the leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle sparked epic struggles, such as the early 20th century clash between the accommodationist Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the militant founder of the N.A.A.C.P. The most recent chapter played out in the early 1970s, when Jackson himself displaced Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidant, Ralph David Abernathy, putting himself on course to become what many...