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What saved the reja from the scrap heap was the omnivorous taste of the late William Randolph Hearst-who once bought a whole monastery in Spain, shipped it stone by stone to the U.S. But even Hearst did not have room to house the cathedral screen. For more than 25 years it remained in packing boxes in a Bronx warehouse. Eventually, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which has in its towering Medieval Sculpture Hall a room made to order for the 60,000-lb. screen, began negotiating to buy it. Earlier this year the Hearst Foundation donated the screen...
What this country needs is a pushbutton to end all pushbuttons−to send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
...more (reportedly from the U.S. controlled Hudson's Bay Oil & Gas Co. Ltd.). buiit its holdings to 702,000 shares (worth almost $16 million) by the Tennessee purchase. Said a Brown aide: "Never forget that he is going to be on the top of the heap, because he never forgets...
Inside the castle where workmen unearthed something that gleamed whiter than stone, further digging uncovered a small heap of bones-the remains of 48 child victims of Brittany's Bluebeard...
What keeps this clumsy, costly apparatus from the scrap heap is longstanding political regard for the farm vote. Understandably, U.S. farmers have learned to use political power to make up for economic weakness. Unlike big unions, farmers have no collective bargaining power. Unlike big corporations, they cannot control the supply of their products. When the nation's farms produce too much wheat, an individual farmer cannot keep the price up by holding part of his crop off the market: even a big farmer's share of the total wheat supply is a thimbleful in a carload...