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...union leaders to settle the dispute, and on Friday it ended, at least temporarily. Union Leader John Lawe ordered his members back to work. In the meantime, the workers, who earn an average of $18,500 a year with overtime, will vote by mail on whether to accept the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's final offer. It was for a 9% wage increase in the first year of the contract and 8% in the second year -roughly the same pay increase that the union probably could have obtained without a strike. In addition, the M.T.A.'s package contains several...
...Metropolitan Museum, a treasure trove from China...
Last week six of the warriors and two of the horses went on view at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of its newest exhibit, "Treasures from the Bronze Age of China," which will later go to Chicago, Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Boston. "Age" is the key word, since the terra cotta figures are obviously not bronze; chronologically, though, they do belong to the period, albeit its very end. The public will be grateful that the dramatic figures were included-even if they were not absolutely needed. For the show has bronzes enough to dazzle...
When Eugen Meyer, a Wall Street financier, bought the Post in 1933 for $800,000, the population of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., was about 650,000. Forty five years later, when The Pillars of the Post ends, the population is about 3.1 million. And the make-up of the population, and that of the surrounding suburbs, is a newspaper publisher's dream. Once a sleepy, sort-of-Southern, closes-at-six town, Washington grew to an enormous and affluentmetropolis. Its slums remain vast and the poverty within them intractable, but in the areas that matter to a newspaper publisher, Washington...
...compass and comprehend such a transformation is a huge undertaking, but last week New York's Metropolitan Museum proved it was equal to the task. It triumphantly opened a set of new galleries that allow the museum to display the full riches of its 19th century collection. Built with a $2.5 million gift from the late André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part...