Word: fairness
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...acres), the costliest ($1 billion), the most imaginative and likely to be the most visited (some 10 million people are expected, twirling the turnstiles 35 million times). Since Queen Victoria and Prince Albert opened London's Great Exhibition in 1851, there have been dozens of "world's fairs." Some have left unforgettable landmarks (most notably, the Eiffel Tower from Paris' Exposition in 1889); some have simply left scars (the dilapidated architectural skeletons and sour aftertaste from the shill's paradise that was New York's 1964-65 fair). Only a handful have come near equaling...
...chances that it can do so successfully are not good. In the past ten years, Parliament has thrown out at least ten bills to control discrimination-and the mood has not changed. Two months ago, when the government called union lead ers together to sound them out on fair employment laws, most of them boycotted the conference entirely...
...tall, fair, baby-faced lad whose pronouncements sometimes lean toward the studied and pompous, Buswell entered Harvard because he believes that it is the duty of the performer to "seek an expression peculiar to his generation, and college is one way of discovering what my generation is all about."* As a result, while most young musicians today approach the classics on bended knee, vowing technically precise, note-for-note fidelity, Buswell views his role as that of a "performer in the creative sense, equally creative as the composer...
...given up on Maris after two injury-plagued seasons in which he batted .239 and .233-and Maris had almost given up on himself. Traded to the Cards during the winter, he debated retiring. General Manager Stan Musial, whose own lifetime batting average of .331 qualifies him as a fair judge of hitting talent, finally persuaded Roger to sign (for $75,000)-and neither has any cause for regret. Against the San Francisco Giants last week, Maris collected two hits and scored the winning run in a 2-1 St. Louis victory. "I feel great," said Roger. "A new place...
...slipping working-class propaganda into WPA art projects. "Swarthmore College felt obliged to close up a room in which no fewer than six clenched fists were detected in a WPA mural," Bendiner recalls. "After a mild uproar the room was reopened with three of the fists removed-a fair compromise for the time...