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...want the job," Mehta said. "Artistically, it wouldn't be a step up for me. My orchestra is better than the New York Philharmonic." Mehta doubted that most of his supposed rivals for the job want it either. But the other candidates either kept mum or agreed with Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez that leading the Philharmonic would be "a difficult but enviable...
Dancing on the Greensward. When Morris died in 1896 at 62, almost his last words were: "I want to get mum-bo-jumbo out of the world." He had put a good deal into it. His vision of a materialist Utopia with an art-craft peasantry, and Morris himself dancing on the greensward, bordered on the ridiculous. The masterpiece printed by his Kelmscott Press was a massive edition of Chaucer, illustrated by himself and the painter Burne-Jones. It cost ? 20- probably the equivalent of a half-year's wages of one of the men who toiled...
...Smith on short pay-$20 since June to recoup the allotments his wife received during his absence. Glenda Fay Smith meanwhile is still receiving her allotments. A runner at Sixth Army headquarters, Smith has recently been given a battery of physical and mental tests. Though the Army is mum about the results, one officer cracked that Smith was "crazy like a fox." Smith sums it all up with innocent aplomb. "I talked to the sergeant major once, and he said, 'Well, it wasn't an authorized absence.' But it wasn't unauthorized either...
Though Ford Negotiator Malcolm Denise admitted after the settlement that "our costs are always reflected in prices," the company kept mum on how much, or when, it might up car prices to meet the cost of the new contract. Undoubtedly, the $114 average price increase that Ford announced last month-in line with the rest of the industry-anticipated many of the labor costs. If Reuther's $800 million package was more than the company had projected, prices may be raised once again at year's end, when shoulder harnesses become a mandatory safety item...
Though both camps kept mum on the details, few expected the latest ripples to end the six-week-old strike overnight. The blackout did seem to improve the temper of the affair, which has tended to be insulting. U.A.W. bargainers have been complaining that Ford Negotiator Sidney F. McKenna works "like a computer," like to call him the "McKennacal Man." The union's veteran negotiator, Gene Prato, ended one recent session by announcing, in four-letter terms, that he'd had more than enough of McKenna...