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...Handholding. Though Lolly has five assistants, she is still her own best legman, gleans most of her items from the ceaseless jangle of CR 1-4222, from her nightly round of parties, openings and dinners, and from rumors and tips phoned her by ingratiating pressagents and later nailed down by Lolly's direct confrontation with the parties involved...
...dialing MOhawk 7-8383 a maximum of 220 callers an hour can hear a message tied to the saint whose day it is. Sample: "Too many of us have never learned the love of solitude in today's busy world. Our hero for today, St. Bruno, rebukes our ceaseless activity in the midst of people." At the end comes a commercial: a short reminder that Dial-a-Saint is presented by George H. Lewis & Sons, funeral directors...
Thanks to Russell's ceaseless questioning and streamlining-a process known to Southern Pacific hands as "Russellization" -his railroad now handles a bigger load than it did a decade ago with little more than half the work force it then had. Fort night ago, the railroad telegraphers' union indignantly complained to a presidential mediation board that Russell had shut down 149 stations in the last six years, closing and consolidating facilities that other U.S. railroads would have kept open much longer...
Mumford's theme is thus the ceaseless struggle between modern civilization and modern man, massively and often turgidly argued in the pioneering tetralogy-on which he labored, heedless of the paradox that as his reputation has grown, his influence has diminished. Now, in an intricate synthesis of his past output, Sociologist-Art Critic-Litterateur-Town Planner Mumford has written a densely composed history of that struggle on its most bloody battlefield-the city. The interpretation may not be fresh, but simply as a Portable Mumford (if 576 pages of narrative, 56 pages of annotated bibliography, and 114 pages...
...Congo, it rained all week. Flash floods washed out streets of Leopoldville's native city, where hundreds of huts slowly caved in under the ceaseless downpour. In Coquilhatville, striking civil servants who had not been paid for three months gave up their picketing in the driving rain and stayed indoors. This was the land of crisis, the subject of endless U.N. debates, but on the scene it wore a lethargic...