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...they went on shift in Fontana, Calif., last week, 7,000 employees of the Kaiser Steel Corp. stopped off at improvised polling booths at the plant gates. By an overwhelming 74% vote, the Kaiser workers agreed to give a four-year trial to an experimental labor contract that may ultimately alter the tone of collective bargaining...
Sleeping on Cue. He was born in 1924 in a village called Fontana Liri, 50 miles southeast of Rome. He apprenticed in his father's carpentry shop and later took a degree in surveying at the University of Rome, graduating just in time for the Germans to put him to work making military maps. "It was all so stupid." he says. "We were still doing maps of Sicily when the Americans were in Florence...
...Romeos, Lancias and Maseratis inches toward the Piazza della Scala, their high-powered engines being raced by traffic-frustrated drivers. Pulling up before La Scala's neoclassic facade, the cars discharge their cargoes-usually an Italian businessman, resplendent in white tie, and his bejeweled wife, dressed in a Fontana, Capucci or Dior...
...Opening in Lamont Library today is an exhibit of the theatre in Brazil, arranged by Emilio Fontana of the International Seminar...
Clever fashion accessories include Fontana's shoes, which can be worn on either foot with equal comfort and no lack of style, Perrone's three-tiered gloves-additional sections of which can be buttoned on as the day grows more formal. But perhaps the greatest contribution to the three-day showings was made not by any one designer or even by the luminous Barberini background but by six giant pythons who gave their lives for the snakiest raincoat in fashion history...