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...happiness with husbands and children, it put them on the defensive, made them think they had betrayed not only their womanhood but their selfhood as well. There was a self-righteousness among feminists that kept all kinds of potential recruits away. Emily Anne Smith, the second female designer-builder in Atlanta's history, recalls, "When the women's movement came along, I was involved in what I wanted for me. Then, when I did meet with NOW, I was put down. They told me I was selfish." Her friend Flo Bruns, who helped found Atlanta's high-powered Women Business...
...private, family-run corporation, Bechtel has maintained a cloak of secrecy rivaled only by modern-day monarchies. Still, some new insights about this prodigious builder are almost certain to emerge during Shultz's Senate confirmation hearings later this month. Most of the attention is expected to focus on Bechtel's longstanding ties to the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, which helped the company to land the job of construction manager on the Saudis' gargantuan Jubail development project (see following story...
...Arabia is any indication, Bechtel follows one motto: Think big. You get the feeling that if the U.S. Government had not thought of the moon landing first, Bechtel would have proposed the idea -and then sold it to someone." In Saudi Arabia, the world's most formidable master builder seems to have done nearly that.- By Alexander L. Taylor IlL Reported by William Blaylock/ Jubail
...time Eakins was reproached for being too scientific, not artistic enough, though "a builder on the bedrock of sincerity, and an all-sacrificing seeker after the truth." Their freedom from "poetic" conventions is, of course, just what makes his best paintings so moving to a modern eye. In them, system and nature rise to a peculiarly close relationship. "The big artist," Eakins wrote, "keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools . .. Then he's got a canoe of his own, smaller than Nature's, but big enough for every purpose ... With this canoe he can sail...
...right up the street from Hollywood, the home of the hot tub and the avocado salad, Mariska Hargitay, 18, this year's Miss Beverly Hills. Mariska is the offspring of Actress Jayne Mansfield, who died when her daughter was three years old, and Mickey Hargitay, a former body builder turned real estate investor. Following in her mother's footsteps, young Hargitay will enter U.C.L.A. next fall, where she will be a theater arts major. Her 36-24-36 frame may lack some of the oomph of her mother's famed 40-18-36 curves, but Mariska feels...