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...shot showed up in at least three Southern newspapers, the Mobile Register, Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont and Aiken (S.C.) Standard and Review, without a ruffle. Picture Editor Howard Knapp of the New York Daily News spread it across Page One and called it: "The best picture of the year-it's got motion and emotion...
Life-loving Milles could not resist adding grace notes of Puckish humor to the attendant figures, two angels and a faun. To visitors who came to see the all-but-complete figures in the studio, Milles did his tongue-in-cheek best to explain away the oddities: "Why is there an angel playing the flute? Horses love music, didn't you know? Why did I put the angel on one side? Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know...
...back with more contract "refinements." At 10 a.m. the strike deadline passed, and 98,000 Ford workers went out while the U.A.W. hastily readied telegrams urging them to please go back to work. A few hours later Fordman John Bugas, happy that he had bagged the management's best contract since World War II, stretched out his hand to Reuther. "Walter," he beamed, "you've got yourself a deal...
...other hand, jobs are steadily opening up in new industries such as electronics. In addition, the rise in productivity will accelerate the shift of workers out of industry and into retail, wholesale and service jobs, the job categories that held up best during the recession. Administration economists fear that these shifts and disruptions in the labor force will take some time to balance out because workers are understandably reluctant to go into new towns or new industries to find jobs. Historically, sharp increases in productivity have always created tough periods of adjustment. Yet more production for the same amount...
Planners have long known that a far better answer to downtown blight is to attract higher-income families back to town. Many cities have pondered how to do this, and some have tried. In one of the best efforts so far, Detroit last week opened the first unit of Lafayette Plaisance University City, an all privately financed and operated $30 million development of 1,029 rental and 938 cooperative apartments in a onetime slum area. When completed. University City, only half a mile from the heart of downtown Detroit, will occupy a 55-acre park with six 22-story glass...