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...group has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 worth of goods, including musical instruments, jewelry, two computers, a snow blower and an oriental rug worth $25,000 in Newton, according to Detective Walter L. Boyle...
...that's how former California Governor Jerry Brown saw his startlingly modern portrait. But some legislators failed to share Brown's view of the painting by Santa Monica Artist Don Bachardy, which they said looked more like spilled soy sauce and ketchup than art. Cracked State Senator Newton Russell: "Do we have any room in the head?" Aesthetically conservative lawmakers balked at putting the work, with its multicolored brush strokes, next to the sober portraits of Brown's 33 predecessors. More pragmatic pols argued that there was simply no more room in the capitol's main...
...idea is being embraced everywhere. At Maytag's factory in Newton, Iowa, employees do more than keep pace with assembly lines. A single worker may build an entire washing machine subassembly. Then he checks his work with a stethoscope and stamps his ID number on the product. Says Vice President Sterling O. Swanger: "Quality is everyone's business at Maytag...
...lecture rally was organized by Rachel H. Inker '86, and Deborah Kantor '85, who both knew Caldicott while at high school in Newton...
...Ardant, Truffaut remarked that he had been "seduced by her looks." One can see why, although she is striking in a way more reminiscent of a Helmut Newton heroine than a Hitchcock one--if only she had been given the chance to do more than look good...