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Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office) is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect, Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Miles van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...page study, the principal governmental watchdog body in the civil rights field concluded that 40 federal departments and agencies, regulating everything from housing to broadcasting, have been delinquent in pressing for an end to racial exclusion. So lackadaisical has been enforcement that such landmark bills as the Fair Housing Law of 1968 and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are practically null in some instances. The commission leveled particularly stiff criticism at agencies that regulate some of the country's largest industries, including the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Securities and Exchange...
...then pass by one of those brown wooden national landmark signs indicating the proximity of the cabin where Robert Frost lived. Picnic tables and litter bins help commemorate the entrance to the road. Stopping to read the sign, you feel like a reverent tourist at Lexington and Concord or the Statue of Liberty. At the end of the dirt road which climbs about a mile through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads...
...strike (including some footage of the celebrated hard-hat incidents), and it also covers the march on Washington. That the photography and sound are of markedly poor quality, that the editing resorts to tricks (unspeakable in documentaries) like pixillation, and that the whole affair is packaged like a landmark of cinema verite, all pale before the movie's ugliest flaw: its politics are asinine. The interviewers are boorish, sexist, and reactionary, and the resulting sub-screen attitudes toward militancy, electoral politics, and violent revolution which emerge are at their very best a parody of post-teenybopper politics...
...Angie Brooks of Liberia has served for the past year as president of the United Nations General Assembly. Annie Jiagge was Ghana's first woman lawyer, judge and finally Supreme Court justice. She headed an investigation into the corruption of the Nkrumah era that has been hailed a landmark in African political reform and justice. Sophie Lihau-Kanza is one of the four chief ministers in President Joseph Mobutu's Congolese government; and Mrs. Olyn Williams, Sierra Leone's first female Permanent Secretary, is a champion of the cause of women in politics. "Men in government spend...