Word: laying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White-Collar Aspirations. Unionleaders lay the blame on the paucity of Qualified Negro applicants, point out that a good skilled worker today may be as skilled as many laboratory technicians of 25 years ago. "When we find a Negro with the basic educational qualifications," says John Cinquemani, executive secretary of the Los Angeles Building Construction Trades Council, "he tends to look down on these fields and tries for a white-collar...
Mark Odom Hatfield is a lay preacher of the fundamentalist Baptist Church, a teetotaling former university dean (Willamette) who gave up smoking because he did not want to lead his students into temptation. Hatfield has since adopted a habit that is a lot harder to forsake: running for public office. At 43, he has won five consecutive contests for assorted posts as a Republican in normally Democratic Oregon, is just finishing off his second four-year term as Governor. Since he was barred by Oregon's constitution from seeking a third successive term, Hatfield obviously had to find another...
Harvard Board of Overseers, a member of the first White House Conference on Education, and organizer of the National Citizens Commission for the Pub lic Schools-a "kind of symbol of the lay person who has been concerned for the future of education," as Harvard President Nathan Pusey put it at the dedication.* Architecturally, the building's distinction is its flexibility. Such immovable objects as stairs, elevators and ventilating shafts are arranged along the outer walls, leaving unobstructed central floor space on its eight levels so that inner partitions can be shifted at will. A few small outer...
...life that has seen many changes. When Krupp succeeded to his family's industrial throne in 1943, the word Krupp was synonymous with armaments. The Krupp plants produced the weapons that helped Hitler ravage Europe; by the end of World War II most of the Krupp factories lay in ruins, pounded into rubble by Allied bombers, and Alfried Krupp himself was sentenced to twelve years in prison for employing slave labor in his factories. Krupp was released in 1951, after serving only half his sentence; at that time he pledged that he would never again make another...
...fail." None of his human figures, he felt, captured what he saw. None could-for what he saw was the fleeting essence of man. It is no surprise that Jean-Paul Sartre celebrated him as the ideal existentialist artist. Somewhere be hind the plaster contours of his stick figures lay the truth of man's mortality. "I know," said Giacometti, "with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed in reproducing what I see, even if I live to be a thousand." At his death last week, of a heart attack, he was only 64. He had succeeded...