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Some of Macon's blacks, however, want to preserve the sign as a reminder of their past struggle. "It's not offensive," says State Representative Billy Randall, who was obliged to use the Jim Crow waiting room as recently...
Montanans are used to Custer controversy. The Crow Indians, who hold most of the 9,000 privately owned acres slicing through the battlefield, leased land for the 1969 filming of Little Big Man, which portrayed Custer as a grandiose madman. Monument boosters who prefer a more sober-eyed version of the hero are trying to raise $8 million to buy the land...
...decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey once questioned whether Walter Mondale had the "fire in the belly" to run for President, a charge so serious that to meet it Mr. Mondale had to submit to a three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. Mondale may have other political liabilities, but the absence of a burning belly is no longer one of them...
...number of photos and drawings in the exhibition demonstrate, the Saarinen architectural vision soon left its mark on other parts of the U.S. as well. With his architect son Eero, Saarinen collaborated on such buildings as the innovative Crow Island School (with Perkins, Wheeler and Will) in Winnetka, Ill., and the calm, lofty First Christian Church in Columbus, Ind. Eero's work eventually eclipsed his father's. His eerily mysterious M.I.T. Chapel at Cambridge, Mass., is not only one of his own but also one of 20th century architecture's greatest triumphs. After Eliel's death...
...examinations for those over 35, dental insurance, adoption assistance (up to $1,000) and two country clubs that employees can join for $5 a year. Hewlett-Packard provides free coffee and doughnuts twice a day and sometimes throws informal beer busts in the afternoon during working hours. At Trammell Crow, the real estate developer, partners own a stake in the properties they manage. As a result, some 5% of the company's employees are worth more than a million dollars...