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They all jammed into Park Avenue's handsome, red-brick Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign, which was decorated with hundreds of white, red and blue carnations, the colors of the tsarist flag...
...months striking workers held six complex electric motors, worth $3.7 million, inside the sooty brick factory of Laurence Scott & Electromotors in Manchester, England. The machines, including two ordered by the British Admiralty for installation in NATO submarines, were awaiting shipment 28 weeks ago, when the firm's 650 workers began a sit-in after management announced that the entire work force of the ailing firm, which was losing $150,000 a week, was being laid off and the plant shut down. Despite repeated pleas from company officials, strikers refused to surrender the motors. As the weeks dragged...
...White Flower has advertised in Horticulture "almost forever," and in The New Yorker nearly as long. The New Yorker assumes 60% ownership, while Wadsworth, a Harvard M.B.A., gains a 40% interest and editorial control. The editorial staff of two, who work among potted plants in a two-story red-brick gingerbread Boston building, will not be pruned. Both of them go on quietly sprouting seasonal articles ("Make Way for Anthuriums") and such regular features as tips for beginning gardeners ("What Went Wrong...
Croydon was a good battleground. The electorate covered a wide spectrum: working-class flats, a few affluent neighborhoods, and street on street of red brick houses occupied by skilled workers and low-level managers. For weeks, the big names of all three parties, including former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath and Labor Leaders Michael Foot and Denis Healey, campaigned hard for their candidates. Although Pitt had earlier refused to stand down in favor of Shirley Williams, he was supported by the S.D.P.'s top team-William Rodgers, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Williams-as well as by Liberal Leader...
...able to answer. Most importantly, Wolfe asks why the "boxes" on which almost all modern work is based, continue to be built when no one likes them. Not the architects. Not the builders. And especially not the people who live or work in them. Yet the glass boxes, the brick piles, the cement monoliths rise relentlessly from our cities and towns...