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...talks, hardly anyone in Washington believes that any substantive moves toward peace will be made before the next President takes office. At best, the negotiators in Paris may have settled what they call the "modalities": such inconsequential but emotion-charged issues as seating arrangements, speaking order, briefing rules, and myriad other details...
...Western monetary system. The money managers and bankers of Europe and the U.S. assembled in Bonn in an emergency session, and solemnly rendered collective judgment that the franc must be devalued. The French braced for the worst, and the money men in capitals around the world prepared for the myriad adjustments in trade and currency flows that a cheaper franc would require. De Gaulle's critics could scarcely contain their glee that, at last, the oracle of the Elysée would be found fallible and forced to retract an utterance...
Oldenburg had gone on from plaster to vinyl and canvas. In 1962 he dreamed up monster hamburgers and bed-size pistachio ice-cream cones. Since then he has sketched a myriad of delightful "proposed colossal monuments" for Manhattan, including a giant Teddy bear for Central Park, and a mountainous baked potato for the front of the Plaza Hotel. Conceivably, Manhattan's festival organizers also expected him to whip up the baked potato. Instead, he had the city hire two gravediggers, who dug a 3-ft. by 6-ft. hole in Central Park, then carefully filled it in. He called...
...group dutifully followed Reisner to the men's room. "It's a gold mine," Reisner exulted. Three at a time, they crowded into the dingy lavatory to savor the myriad scrawls that adorned the walls and even the ceiling. "Listen to this!" said one of the girls, copying furiously in her notebook. "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." "Marvelous!" said Reisner...
...attempt to close that gap is part technological, part financial, part political. In big cities, building-trades unions have long been a major obstacle to fully industrialized housing?buildings with huge parts preassembled in a factory instead of handcrafted at the site from myriad bits and pieces. That money-saving process increases the employment of industrial workers but reduces the need for highly paid (up to $7.30 an hour) building craftsmen at the site. When Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley started flexing his political muscles, however, the unions agreed not only to erect factory-fabricated units, which had long been...