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Lewis' troubles began last December, after the Walnut town fathers refused his demand that they build a road to his one-acre lot on a bungalow-filled slope grandly misnamed Castle Hill. His wife Eva threatened to retaliate by selling the property to Negroes.
Peter Voulkos' rough, ragged monuments are powerful weapons against the slick coffee-table pottery that often passes for modern art, and already a generation of fierce West Coast individualists has joined him at the barricades. Their fast-burgeoning "clay movement" dominates a wide-ranging, determinedly original show of California...
In ten years of the "Harnwell climate," Penn has nearly doubled faculty salaries, tripled scholarship aid, and boosted research contracts to $26 million. The operating budget has almost tripled, to $75 million; endowment has more than doubled, to $86 million. In Harnwell's reign, Penn has completed 45 major...
As Lowell Dillingham sees it, the real opportunity for his company lies on the U.S. mainland. Largely by trading parts of the Dillingham's huge Hawaii land holdings, Lowell hopes to maneuver into the big-time land business on the mainland. He recently swapped 118 acres of sugar cane...
Harvard-educated Lowell Dillingham tempers acumen with whimsy. He insists on the color blue for almost everything, including his office telephones, carpets and draperies. He shuns Honolulu society, spends his free time at a 105,000-acre ranch where he raises and hunts game birds. One of his recent tasks...