Word: craftsmen
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...Craftsmen like Ralph Lee are called custom-car buffs, and his personalized Chevy was on display last week in the seventh annual Rod and Custom Auto Show of Washington, D.C.-the grand finale of 22 such shows around the country, at which automotive do-it-yourselfers compete like beauty queens...
...Head. In part, the influx is the result of a government campaign to lure European skilled craftsmen and professionals, who are in short supply in South Africa. The Verwoerd regime desperately wants to change the population balance, which currently stands at 3,250,000 whites v. 13,815,000 Africans, Coloreds and Asians. In cities across Europe, newspaper ads extol the virtues of South Africa, and recruitment centers offer a $168 grant for each approved man, woman and child immigrant...
...Lyndon Johnson would readily agree, and as the U.S. may rest assured, he is far from being a nonentity. Perhaps still another Vice President best described his skills. "He is," Richard Nixon once said, "one of the ablest political craftsmen of our time." During Republican Dwight Eisenhower's two terms, Johnson was the Senate's Democratic floor leader, and between presidential election years he was generally recognized as the U.S.'s most powerful Democrat. By the time he accepted his party's vice-presidential nomination, he was probably the only Democrat in the country who could...
...order. Finally, architects and artisans started the long process of finishing the house in authentic Colonial style. Magnificent flooring (wood-pegged, not nailed) was put down in the first-floor reception room and dining room. (It is singularly comforting that in an age of Sert buildings there are still craftsmen able to construct such wonderful floors.) A fine old chandelier was hung over the graceful staircase. Authentic wallpaper of the period was found for the second-floor guest room. Fireplaces were scraped down to their original brownstone. Finally, the house was furnished with as many appropriate antiques as could...
...Plantin-Moretus family sold it to the city as a museum. Today, says Dartmouth Professor Ray Nash, "it is the greatest single source for the history of printing, publishing, book design and illustration." But it is also something more. Plantin and his successors hired the best craftsmen and artists they could find to turn their books into works of art, an achievement rarely matched, but never forgotten, by those who have published since...