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...serves its purpose of elegance not only in that it is expensive but also because it is the insignia of leisure." But in the U.S., the meaning of elegance has changed as much as the meaning of leisure. It is a leisure of action-barbecue parties in the backyard, motor trips along country roads and across the country, weekend golf and water skiing. From America's lively leisure has evolved a new, home-grown fashion, as different from Paris fashion as apple pie from crepes suzette. Paris can still claim its title as the custom-fashion capital...
...second part of the anti-scull cycle is best termed the machine age. Even the most accurate of rock throwers had to remain stationary on the river side. But with the advent of Robert Fulton, the Charles River mechanized. Motor boats, big and small, appeared, oblivious to the frail Harvard students and their frail craft. If formerly one had only to row to the other side to escape a rock, now the boats and their over-present waves were all over the river. To add to the sculler's confusion, there are several types of motor boats...
About 200 automobile fans from 12 New England colleges will join in rallies, gymkhanas, races, and hill climbs when the Harvard Motor Sports Enthusiasts' Club sponsors the first Intercollegiate Race-Rally Weekend in history on May 14 and 15, club president Ira J. Rimson '56 announced last night...
...among its 12,500 workers. Heart cases work at tool design, polio victims as technical writers, amputees operate automatic machines and lathes. The company found that there is not only less malingering and absenteeism, but better production and greater safety consciousness among this group than in any other. Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant in the same city has 600 handicapped workers in its 2,700-man work force. Says Personnel Manager John McKee: "After all, if a job can be done with one arm, why shouldn't an employer hire a man with...
Divide & Conquer. This week Ford Motor Co. was to be served with a similar union demand, in the Silver Room of the Detroit-Leland Hotel. As the bargaining began, U.A.W. (and C.I.O.) President Walter Reuther sat back in his second-floor office at Solidarity House (U.A.W.'s elegant headquarters), ready to manipulate his teams by private telephone lines to each conference suite. He also soft-pedaled strike talk. When a newsman asked whether the auto workers will strike, Reuther replied: "If I knew the answer-and I don't-I wouldn't tell...