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Human and Angelic. "So up we go. The tower trembles alarmingly as we ascend, and the faces of the tower crew below us look dime-sized. Now the ceiling seems to tent us in, and there is a vast rush of images, a crystalline turbulence. The clarity of colors is the first surprise. From the floor, the figures overhead look like painted sculpture. Up here you find transparency, veils of atmosphere, light-filled shadows. Perhaps Michelangelo felt that opaque colors would be out of place in a world of legend, myth and mystery...
Starting tonight, you can flip your Cliffie a dime, dump her on a bus at Lowell, and go back to bed. If you don't have a Cliffie, you can ride the bus--which one student called "a jolly-up on wheels"--until you catch...
...distribution for me. Finally, eventually I wound up with eight or ten men just handling distribution. I did the rest of the work. But even at that, the rest of the work, writing the paper, covering the courts, was an 80-hour week. And then I went to a dime eventually...
...than 1,000,000 since 1964, while the population has risen by 1,500,000. Across the country, the abstainers are mainly disaffected McCarthy and Kennedy Democrats, plus some Rockefeller Republicans. If they agree with George Wallace on nothing else, many still feel that "there's not a dime's worth of difference" between Nixon and Humphrey...
Money and Management. Like many other small business enterprises, a number of new Negro-owned businesses have foundered. In Pittsburgh, a Negro druggist failed after he converted his pharmacy into a pinball parlor, whose dime machines produced a much lower return, than high-markup drugs. Hard times have hit Fairmico, a boxmaking company formed last April in Washington, D.C. Owned by Fairchild Hiller and a local Negro community group, it is Negro-managed and hires only the hard-core jobless. Absenteeism has run high, and some drug addicts have taken injections right on the factory floor. But, despite such .problems...