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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Upton, who runs the hyperactive Chamber of Commerce, points to Metropolitan Life, NCR and many other big companies that have opened branches in the area. Tom Pierce, Wichita's AFL-CIO chief, notes that despite its right-to-work law, Kansas' average hourly wage is fairly high ($6.11). Says Pierce: "If workers come here and stay for two or three months, you would have a tough time getting them to move...
...abstract painting being done by artists of Stella's generation in the U.S. today looks ei ther timid or bored. Among younger artists, the abstract impulse tends to be more plainly decorative, less ambitious: witness the elaborately imbricated patterns of Joyce Kozloff s Mad Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym), which sport in profile a curious little...
...turned out they put them on two legs at a time, leaping high and accomplishing the maneuver in midair. The networks sold all available time to the underarm and antifreeze boys and predicted the biggest TV audience in history. Brezhnev said let Teng put that in his cowboy hat. Learned scholars and Richard Nixon pointed out how football was a game that symbolized the essence of the American character. The Americans practiced in a veritable frenzy of patriotism. Terry Bradshaw strengthened his passing hand by squeezing the milk out of coconut shells. "No more Mr. Nice Guy," vowed Mean...
...Beat Yale, Beat Yale," Bierer came back from a 3-2 deficit to waste Jim Yang, 5-3, and finish a perfect 3-0 afternoon. Homer, patiently waiting as long arguments went on between points, crushed Ed Barskdale, 5-0. He gathered the last two touches with his favorite high parry and then touch to the mask...
With 2:02 remaining, Fine dished-off a pass to Fleming, who was fouled as he scored. Fleming completed the three-point play, bringing his game-high scoring total to 29 points and also stretching the Harvard lead to five...