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...photographic survey of the architecturally and historically distinguished buildings of New York as selected by the little band of devout New Yorkers known as the Municipal Art Society. The book's 100-odd photographs, notes Brendan Gill in his foreword, constitute a "veritable Kama Sutra, or manual of instruction, in the wooing of this incomparable city." They also provide a fascinating guide to the paroxysms of borrowed styles-Greek revival, Gothic, Georgian, Italian Renaissance-that afflicted and sometimes ornamented all U.S. cities before they finally achieved in the skyscraper an architectural statement of their...
Bewildered by a foot clutch, a manual stick shift and a tricky choke, the robber flooded the engine. The car lurched and died. He started it again, and again the Ford coughed and pooped out. The driver, desperate, looked across the street. There stood a group of demolition workers who had been tearing down an old slaughterhouse. They now became the central figures in a modern morality play...
Muller said that manual laborers were referred to Buildings and Grounds either through employment offices or because they were acquainted with someone on the work force. In most instances, he said, the foreman of the crew involved made the hiring decisions. Hiring for the staff of the department is the responsibility of the director, Cecil A. Roberts...
Semiannual tinkering with manual clocks...
...more than 500 defects, and spare parts that were more than 50% defective. On Mercury's six manned flights, there was an average of ten equipment malfunctions-any one of which might have resulted in fatal failures. Only emergency backup systems and the skill of the astronauts in manual control saved the missions...