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...city would appear to have been struck by a giant fist. Within that radius would be the lofty Empire State Building, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building; the teeming cliff dwellings of Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town; Klein's department store; 14th Street's subway complex; a labyrinth of gas mains, water lines, telephone cables, electric wires; 55 elementary schools, high schools and trade schools; 17 universities and private schools; twelve of the city's hospitals...
...career had followed a somewhat familiar path. Born in South Carolina, educated at Columbia University, Keyserling went to Harvard Law School. From there he entered the murky Washington labyrinth by way of Henry Wallace's AAA. He helped frame the Wagner Act. He worked his way onward & upward through the Housing agencies. He mastered the gobbledygook of economic language and the fast footwork needed for intramural debate. He learned to jump out from behind corners, making Keynesian faces at businessmen. In 1946, with a boost from Harry Truman, he landed on the newly constituted...
Bull's Eye. Last week, Pomerantz was ready to collect again. This time his target was Textron Incorporated's Royal Little, who had parlayed a Providence rayon yarn dyeing mill into a $54 million, 20-odd plant textile empire. Textron's baffling labyrinth of foundations and "charitable" trusts had been investigated by Congress, but nobody had ever explored it with such profit as Pomerantz. As usual, he was representing a small (50 shares) stockholder, a Mrs. Lillian Berger of Boston. She, through Pomerantz, charged that Little and his family had been enriched by profits which should have...
...years, beneath the towering immensity of St. Peter's basilica in Rome, the Vatican's hereditary corps of workmen, the Sampietrini, have been painstakingly excavating a city of the dead. First discovered during the preparation of a tomb for Pope Pius XI in February 1939, this labyrinth of ancient Roman and early Christian sepulchres has been unearthed, often with bare hands, from the soil with which it was filled by Constantine before he built the first St. Peter's (begun...
Watch over her in the desert Watch over her in the mountain Watch over her in the labyrinth Watch over her by the quicksand...