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Whether measured by rewards, difficulty or importance to the nation, the post of chief U.N. delegate is one of the top jobs in the Federal Government. Pay and perquisites: $27,500 a year salary; an eight-room, $30,000-a-year apartment on the top floor of Park Avenue's Waldorf Towers; a chauffeured Cadillac; up to $17,000 a year for entertainment expenses; and the title of ambassador...
...eleventh of twelve children, Giacomo had little formal training, after the third grade went to work as a stonecutter, house painter, plasterer. He eventually managed to save for a month's trip to Paris, where he spent nights on park benches, days in the Louvre. In 1938 he turned out the first of his now famous cardinal series. "They interested me not because of their religious content," he says, "but because of their form and line. In a way they are my abstractions." Last year Manzù, who destroys the mold after a single cast, created what he considers...
...Willie Hartack, three-time (1955-56-57) national jockey champion, made his debut as a jumping rider at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, gave Mielaison a near-perfect ride over the ten-jump, 1¾-mile course, won by 4½ lengths, announced: "It was a greater thrill than winning the Kentucky Derby...
...Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...
...that farmers want. With cash in his jeans, the U.S. farmer is turning into such a smart dresser that store clerks often cannot tell the difference between city and farm customers. His wife has already digested Vogue and the latest Paris fashions. Says Mrs. Nadean Reynolds, who had to park and walk eight blocks to her dress shop in Maryville, Mo. (pop. 6,834) last week: "I didn't mind. The parking spaces were taken up by customers. A chemise among the cornstalks isn't news any more...