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...last somebody has given the recognition long overdue to Munich [Feb. 28]. Your magnificently illustrated article on Germany's gateway to the south has succeeded in making me homesick, something that seven years of living abroad failed...
Recently the European cranes have been migrating across the Atlantic in increasing numbers. More than 450 of them are at work-on buildings from Eero Saarinen's 38-story CBS skyscraper in Manhattan to Los Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers, Sweden's A. B. Lindenkranar and West Germany's Liebherr. The cranes range in price from $35,000 to $60,000, depending on lifting capacity, v. about $90,000 for the crawler crane...
...Crown-Zellerbach Corp., world's second largest forest-products firm, U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1956 to 1960, a slight, bespectacled Californian, who took over the family company in 1938, helped its sales grow to nearly $600 million, found time for civic enterprises (the San Francisco Symphony, Golden Gateway redevelopment plan), served ably in a dozen public posts and produced in his private vineyard a California wine that made French diplomats swallow respectfully; of a brain tumor; in San Francisco...
What finally remains-perhaps this is all Ved Mehta wanted to convey-is the topsy-turvy recollection of a dozen or so charming fellows, many of whom seem to engage in a kind of verbal nit picking, identified with Oxford and known as "linguistic philosophy." Language is the gateway to knowledge, goes the argument, and analyzing ordinary language is the best way, if not to solve, at least to understand problems. Present-day Oxford philosophers have little patience with the philosophers of the past who wrestled mightily with ethics, metaphysics and transcendental abstractions. As one thinker explained to Ved Mehta...
...much-courted Rock Island voted to merge their line with the Union Pacific and to sell their southern trackage to the Southern Pacific. The deal would pay Rock Island shareholders about $30 a share for stock that is now selling for $25, also give the Southern Pacific a coveted gateway to Kansas City...