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...between the Chinese and French governments, begun by ex-Culture Minister André Malraux and finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed by Vadime Elisseeff, chief curator of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris. Encyclopedic in scope-the objects on display range from rudimentary quartz and flint scrapers used by Peking Man in 500,000 B.C. to the exquisite porcelains and silver toilet articles of the Yuan dynasty, which ended in A.D. 1368-it is intelligently mounted, with unobtrusive panels of photos, documents and information: an ideal teaching show, in fact. But unlike most didactic exhibitions...
John Muzik, a tall, amiable 34-year-old toolmaker from Flint, Mich., built the car in his garage, spending more than $9,000 to produce a vehicle worth $20,000. The prize money that he wins for best custom car at the shows (roughly $500 each time) pays most of his expenses, and he has the car booked for exhibitions almost every weekend through June. "But the real joy is building the damn thing," says Muzik, running his polish rag over a thumbprint on the body. "It sure is a beautiful machine. I don't race it too often...
Died. Charles S. Mott, 97, U.S. auto pioneer and philanthropist; following a severe case of influenza; in Flint, Mich. After moving his family's axle business from upstate New York to Flint in 1907, Mott sold the company to General Motors for shares of G.M. stock. He spent six decades on G.M.'s board of directors and was at one time the company's largest single stockholder. Though legendary for his personal frugality, he established the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 1926 to finance education, health and recreation programs, and built it into one of the nation...
...under way in steel imports; Derrick L. Brewster, vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel, forecasts that steel imports will fall 20% this year, to about 14 million tons. Result: about 100,000 cars bought by Americans this year will be assembled by workers in Los Angeles or Flint, Mich., rather than in Wolfsburg or Yokohama, and the steel going into those cars will be rolled at mills in Gary, Ind., or Braddock, Pa., instead of Aachen or Kitakyushu...
...original sponsor: Richard Nixon. The two men met in Cambridge in 1965, when Riegle, an "upward-bound, goal-directed hot-shot," was at the Harvard Business School. Nixon, in town to hire talent for his New York law firm, encouraged Riegle to run for a congressional seat in Flint, Michigan, then a Democratic stronghold...