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...Fisher Hall was gutted. Harris put in 2,742 new seats, with fabric (velvet) and wood (oak) carefully designed to be minimally sound absorbent. All the old seats had been removed; some were given to a fledgling theater group only a few blocks away. The Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, part of the rear wall, was sold for $100,000 (original cost: $175,000) to a California church. Virtually everything else was reduced to 9,326 yds. of rubble and shipped off to landfill areas in New York and New Jersey...
...North Street. Wilson, in shirtsleeves, opened the door himself. Apologizing for the mess of paper piled high on the dining table-the contents of his desk at No. 10-he ushered his guest into a cozy, wood-paneled living room. There he settled into an easy chair, lit his pipe and talked. Excerpts from the interview...
...finish a critical half-mile link in the pipeline before the long Alaska winter sets in. Working through the rapidly shortening arctic autumn days and, under portable arc lamps, far into the lengthening night, the men slogged through ankle-deep mud to set the last 40-ft. lengths of pipe in place. It was slow, hazardous work, hampered by howling winds, rock slides and blowing snow. Drawled one grizzled pipeliner, "This here Thompson Pass, she's a frozen hell...
...lover, "I gave up women because they're ball breakers - but you're worse!" A beleaguered civil servant, his massive family wedged into a small car for vacation, wonders if a last-minute phone call concerned his ailing mother-in-law; then he hears the old lady pipe up "I'm here" from somewhere in the crowd between the back seat and the trunk. The Sunday Woman does not contain enough of these modest jokes to call them saving graces. They are more like simple amenities...
Typically Swedish. Many Swedes were turned off by the cold, urbane Palme, who often comes across as overbearingly arrogant. By contrast, Fälldin exuded an unthreatening sincerity. A pipe-smoking country boy who still raises sheep, cuts timber and grows oats and corn on his 668-acre farm, the new Prime Minister mixes easily with all kinds of people and speaks to them in simple language about their problems. Admitted an envious Social Democratic politician: "Fälldin is like your next-door neighbor. He's what people think of as typically Swedish. He's a clever...