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...negotiate with them," says Karp. "They're a rather cynical race, and the whole building would be destroyed if we didn't bargain with them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered to buy two copper finials perched atop the roof, was told by the wreckers that removing them with care was too dangerous and would slow up the job of razing the building. Said...
...victory however, was a team effort, as five men scored in double figures for Princeton. In addition to Bradley's 32. Bob Haarlow had 19, Ed Hammer 16, Gary Walters 12, and Robby Brown scored...
...President Eduardo Frei may not be able to get a single key bill through his lame-duck Congress, but he has certainly stirred the country's youth to unaccustomed activities. To help make good his election promise of "no child without a school," Frei has recruited an unpaid hammer-and-nail corps of 1,500 university students to build schools in out-of-the-way places that have rarely seen a government mission of any kind. Local communities provide building materials, plus food and lodging for the student workers. The students expect to complete 100 classrooms during the present...
Somewhere in Manhattan.That would be enough to keep the college scouts hammering at Lew's door-if only they knew where to hammer. Papa Alcindor is a 6-ft. 3-in. New York subway policeman, and Mama is 5 ft. 11 in.; to all but their closest friends they live "somewhere in upper Manhattan," and their phone number is unlisted. All of Lew's letters are screened by his coach, and sportswriters are required to submit questions in writing-a procedure that has led some to suggest nastily that Donahue is really John Alden in disguise. One Midwestern...
...muse notwithstanding, art in the Western world is a commodity. In U.S. dollars, the timely tabulation takes place in the high temple of auctioneering, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. When the collection of the late Wall Street stockbroker Ira Haupt went under the hammer last week, the question was: How fare the moderns...