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Reading about the "artist of exuberant vitality and unblunted idealism," Mark di Suvero, I received the impression that his "sculpture" manifested a frustration in his childhood-his Erector set lacked too many parts to build a conventional structure...
...friends, Astronaut Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr. is known as "Mr. Fixit." During his youth, his mother recalls, he spent hours with Erector sets, model planes and finally cars and motorcycles. While in quarantine after his Apollo 12 moon-landing, he assembled a complex stereo system. Last week the 43-year-old Navy captain continued to live up to his reputation as Houston's No. 1 amateur mechanic. During a daring and dangerous four-hour walk in space-the longest ever attempted-he and Fellow Astronaut Joseph Kerwin freed Skylab's jammed solar wing, thus probably saving the mission...
...auto-clogged cities in the world, is trying a new solution for its traffic trauma: a portable parking lot. The product of a local firm called Portable Parking Structures, Inc., the lot is actually a three-level open garage that looks as if it were built with an oversize Erector set. The structure is bolted together from steel beams and prefab concrete slabs. It can be assembled quickly on temporarily unused downtown lots and dismantled within one week when the land must be vacated to make way for a new building...
...asking Ford to overhaul seniority practices, the U.A.W. has clearly put the company on the spot. Inverted seniority, said Ken Bannon, Erector of the union's Ford department, would "sustain not only the personal but the community benefits of the hiring program you initiated." If for no other reason than to avoid charges of undermining that program, Ford has agreed at least to consider the plan...
...bleeding and crying to your mother and she patched your wounds and told you, "You can't fight with boys, dear. They're stronger than you are." And she was right. Boys not only had strength you could never match, they had all the paraphernalia of strength: sweat socks, Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while you got the leftovers: paper dolls, hair curlers, bedmaking, frilly underwear, dishwashing, piano lessons, pajama parties. As you grew older, things got more confusing: boys went...