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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor of Detroit's General Motors Building, in the center of a room ornately decorated in ivory and burnt orange, sits a 52-ft.-long table of highly polished walnut. Before each of the table's 42 seats is a built-in microphone activated by a hidden button. It is a fitting setting for a spirited, but civilized, debate between powerful opponents who have come to know each other well. Such a square-off is exactly what is likely to begin this week when Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, reaches across the table to shake...
...what they looked at fell under the department's jurisdiction: mountains and swamps, plains, beaches, dams, railroads, national parks, sawmills, highways. California's Joseph Raffael went to Hawaii and came back with large paintings of water lilies; New York City's best painter of cityscape, John Button, stood at the foot of the Shasta Dam and rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes produced a view taken near Philadelphia's Independence Square, B&O; the Rockies were full of photorealists in National Park Service Jeeps, and one intrepid soul, Vincent Arcilesi, tethered...
...Convention service charges" on all equipment being installed by the New York Telephone Company. Thus, a six-button phone that normally costs $29 is $127; a switchboard that is ordinarily $542 is $1,161; a unit that cost one major user less than $4,000 in Miami, and will be $5,000 in Kansas City, is $7,000 in New York City...
...characteristic talent for getting a maximum of feeling and perception from a minimum of words. At a time when books about women as victims appear with numbing regularity, Double Honeymoon seems a skillful unpretentious throwback to the tradition of woman as seducer - a kind of Blue Angel with button-down wings...
...scion of petty aristocrats on Sardinia whose roots go back to that island's Spanish past, Berlinguer, 54, has been Secretary of the P.C.I, since 1972. He has created a new image for the West's biggest Communist Party-that of hardworking, button-down Communists who in no way represent a revolutionary threat to bourgeois voters. The basic election issue is whether the voters will accept this new respectable image. Ironically, the once ideologically passionate Communists are campaigning in the name of efficiency and good government, while the Christian Democrats (at least to some extent the party...