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...Mission. The two major omissions from his impressive roster (see box) are Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, neither of whom likes to be shown with other artists. Otherwise, the collection is as comprehensive a view of American art today as can be found. It ranges in style from Edward Hopper's clean-limned piece of Americana, done in 1960, to an eerie "combine" by Robert Rauschenberg. A shimmering forest scene by Charles Burchfield complements a Sam Francis abstraction showing swirls of blue dancing a quadrille across the canvas. The great precisionist Charles Sheeler, usually associated with geometric views...
...Risk-Takers. In Belgium a top executive commands more social prestige than the most successful politician. But his incentive is somewhat stifled by the fact that he is expected to spend all his adult life with one company or risk being branded a job-hopper. In Germany the word "manager" has a disreputable ring and tends to be associated with boxing promoters; real status in German business is reserved for the Unternehmer, the risk-taking owner-entrepreneur. So addicted is Germany to the family-operated enterprise that some wealthy German families retain the power to fire the chief executive...
Miller seized on a medical care bill authored by Ohio's Republican Representative Frank T. Bow. It had been casually conceived (recalls Bow: "I got the idea one morning while I was shaving") and tossed into the House hopper without any expectation that much would come...
...hopper is loaded with two pounds of regular grind. When the button is pressed, a dispenser drops nine grams of coffee into a stainless-steel brewing cup. An immersion coil heats water to 210°. The water is then fed into the brewing cup, mixes with the coffee, then drains out into a second brewing cup below that contains the moist grounds from the last cup that was made. Finally, the coffee drains on through a spout into the user...
...votes, you don't need the speech, and if you need the speech, you don't have the votes." For that matter, Maggie preaches to others what he practices himself. Entering the Senate late one afternoon to drop some home-state bills into the hopper, he found Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas delivering an epochal speech to an empty chamber. Magnuson sidled up to Douglas and whispered: "For God's sake, Paul, nobody's listening to you." The startled Douglas sat down and Maggie hoppered his bills...