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...dead of winter last January, the City of Cambridge installed brand new steel grates over windows and heating vents at a municipally-owned parking garage in Central Square to keep out unwanted homeless people and vandals. The measure soon won widespread support from local businessmen and patrons...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: A Grating Problem | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...suit, Betty appears to be a woman who would feel as much at home in the boardroom as in the kitchen. According to General Mills, up to 30% of men do at least some of their own cooking, and the new Betty is intended to be "similar to someone businessmen work with. We wanted someone they would trust with their baking questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Images: Betty Crocker Goes Yuppie | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...most powerful men were hiring her to take pictures of their factories and commercial buildings. "What a lucky lady I am," she told her diary. "I can do anything I want to with these men, and through it all I like them." She saw the faults of her businessmen clients, but she also sincerely admired the new temples of commerce and industry that they were throwing against the sky. She was not the first industrial photographer, but she found exquisite geometries and arabesques in landscapes that others thought blighted or inhuman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortunate Life Margaret Bourke-White | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...executive committee expanded its membership to 30 when, for the first time ever, it elected a white, two Indians and two mixed-race coloreds. In recent months the movement's leaders in Lusaka have also received a steady succession of visitors from South Africa, including churchmen, opposition politicians and businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa We Live with Danger Every Day | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...minority? State President P.W. Botha, who is pushing for limited reforms? Archbishop-elect Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose cries for change have been tempered by condemnations of violence? Gavin Relly, the chairman of the giant Anglo- American Corp., who last year led a delegation of white businessmen to Lusaka, Zambia, for an unprecedented meeting with the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.)? According to a recent poll, that distinction | belongs to none of the above but to Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief of the nation's 6 million Zulus. A total of 83% of Afrikaner businessmen polled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Zulu Chief in the Middle | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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