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Except for Lever House and the Seagram Building, Rudolph thinks that all of lower Park Avenue "looks as though it's about to crumple and fall. Furthermore, Park Avenue is full of imitations of imitations, all of them reflecting each other, until it appears to be an enlarged barbershop with mirrors on all sides...
...everybody else is outside the employees' entrance drinking coffee, tiptoes Clerk Danny Kaye. He has okayed the membership application of a tax-rapped mobster, and he has got to retrieve the card from the Master File before it is mailed out. First the buttons: thack-thack; then the lever: slank. The wheels begin to turn: whumble-whumble-whee. But instead of surrendering the card, the omnivorous machine snaps at Danny's black knit tie and starts dragging him into its transistorized innards. Like a hooked tarpon, Danny runs with the line, is reeled back in, leaps, dives, tail...
Berger's lever was the U.S.'s annual $500 million aid program to South Korea, without which Park's government could not remain solvent. To a steady stream of top Korean officials who came to the four-story U.S. embassy in downtown Seoul, Berger explained that the U.S. might have to re-examine its aid program unless Park let the civilians come back. To show that Berger was not bluffing, the U.S. recently delayed a promised $25 million desperately needed by South Korea to pay for import purchases...
...member of the six-man Commission, Griswold predicted that the withholding of funds might act as a lever to force Mississippi to end discrimination. Acknowledging that such action might widen the breach between the Southern state and the Federal Government, he declared that Mississippi could no longer ignore its responsibilities to the rest of the nation...
...successful product that smaller, weaker originators are frequently swamped. In industry, this is now known as the Lestoil syndrome because of the experience of Lestoil Products of Holyoke, Mass. Lestoil scored a hit with its liquid household cleanser and gleefully watched sales climb to $25 million. Then Lever Brothers followed with Handy Andy, Procter & Gamble with Mr. Clean; recently Colgate weighed in with liquid Ajax. Lestoil's sales have fallen to $16 million, and the company has had to stop paying dividends...