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Today, says Jacquetta Hawkes, Britons are not so lucky. "The fatal discovery of Portland cement [no kin to Portland stone] was made about a century ago. I am aware that steel and concrete building can be good, that it puts all kinds of possibilities before us-such as houses wider at the top than at the bottom . . . [But] it represents that terrifying new phenomenon, man mechanized and living cut off from his land, from the rock out of which he has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sermons in Stone | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Distance Shooters. In contrast, the shortsighted indifference to customers of some utilities in other U.S. cities also means smaller per capita electric sales. New York's massive Consolidated Edison Co. (no kin) sells less than 1,200 kilowatt hours per year to its average home customer v. Detroit Edison's 2,168. One-third of Detroit Edison's customers use electric stoves v. 22.8% average for all U.S. utilities. President Cisler concedes that the cost of his "free" services (about 50? a month per customer) gets added to the bill, but Detroit Edison's rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Customer's Friend | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...kin to Indiana University's Professor Kenneth P. Williams, whose Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950) was a more notable work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: General in the White House | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...tags are not always found, and even when they are, they are not taken as certain proof of identity. Fingerprints which can be checked against the FBI's master file in Washington are considered certain proof. Not until identity has been established beyond doubt are the next of kin notified and the remains sent home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEAD: Unsung Service | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Among its more important campuses: the four-year Champlain College at Plattsburg, the College of Medicine at Syracuse, the College of Medicine at New York City, the Maritime College at Fort Schuyler. *The largest: Manhattan's privately supported New York University (no kin to SUNY), with a total enrollment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: SUNY's Second | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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