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...issue of the relationship between union stewards and company foremen has been a chief subject of dispute since the strike was called Feb. 21, after a shop steward was disciplined by the company for swearing at a foreman at GE's Lynn plant...
This retrospective shows, clearly enough, how such images wound into Kline's work from his roots in the coal country of eastern Pennsylvania, where he was raised by his stepfather, a foreman on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, after his father shot himself in 1917. There is a direct link between his early industrial landscapes of the '40s and a painting like Wotan, 1950, through the work of Kline's contemporaries--especially, in the '40s, De Kooning, whose influence on Kline was pervasive. A case can be made for Wotan as Kline's masterpiece; that extraordinarily forthright black rectangle, with...
...more valid charge against Shultz is that he is no grand strategist. He acts like the foreman of a crew of diplomatic construction workers rather than a statesman pursuing an overall design. The Secretary is a devoted incrementalist. He cannot and does not claim any major breakthroughs, but says that during his tenure the U.S. has developed a consistency in its handling of relations with the Soviets, eased tensions with European allies and seen more democratic governments take root in Central America. Progress, he believes, can be made only by a kind of patient chipping away at encrusted differences rather...
...couple's considerable public relations skills, and turned into a showcase for their uninhibited style of royal excursion. With her nimble spontaneity, Diana is invigorating the staid ritual of the walkabout, the traditional version of which presents a gloved and hatted royal frowning to show interest as a dusty foreman laboriously explains how a widget is manufactured. Touring an aluminum smelter in the city of Portland, Diana could not stop giggling at the sight of Charles wearing a too small hard hat and protective goggles; with his Clark Gable ears, he looked rather like a Volkswagen with both doors wide...
...late John "Muggsie" Kelly, the 59-year old general superintendant of the Perini Corporation, died on May 18, 1982, when a crane fell over and crushed the foreman while he was standing at the edge of a tunnel excavation...