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...attempt to impress Congress with the seriousness of the situation, New York union officials traveled to Capitol Hill again last month. Said Sandbank: "We were there to convince the Congressmen and the national [union] president that we were not playing games and that there would be a strike unless we got the legislation that would satisfy [our members]." Their attempt was unsuccessful. Earlier this month, the Post Office Committee reported out still another bill providing the mailmen with a 5.4% increase retroactive to January. The men were unhappy with the amount. They were further irked by the announcement that Congress...
Even then his droll humor was evident. In 1964, while using burlap to impress the texture of cloth in his lost-wax bronzes, he hit upon the idea of making sculptures out of the burlap itself draped over metal armatures. He quickly became handy with a needle and thread, still chuckles over the fact that when thieves recently broke into his studio, they walked off with his old secondhand Singer sewing machine and ignored his sculptures (which command...
...just a small-town boy. Money impresses me. Big business impresses me. Important people impress me. I'm a mercenary. I admit it. I want to be a billionaire...
Although the system failed to impress the U.S. Treasury, it has taught Levine a costly lesson. Last week, more than six years after he began the experiment, doctors reported that the radioactive isotope had found its way not only into the body of the 57-year-old researcher but into that of his ten-year-old son as well...
...Theatron could not hope to have much of an impact; as a continuing concept the prospects are pretty much unlimited. There is a greater-than-usual burden on the company to present a good show: Theatron not only wants to present a good show per se, but also to impress audiences with its underlying concept...