Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roof of their eccentric circle from extended vertical ribs. Most eye challenging of all is Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project is finished, more than 30 fully furnished houses, with from one to four bedrooms, are scheduled to go on display. The other 120-odd are already being rented...
That practice may now be ended. The NLRB has just won a highly significant victory against the United Rubber Workers of America's Local 12, which speaks for all workers at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in East Gadsden, Ala. In 1960, Goodyear laid off eight Negroes who had more seniority than white workers who kept their jobs. The union, which agreed to separate seniority lists for each race, refused to help its Negro members. Even the union's international president, George Burdon, could not dissuade Local 12. Though federal negotiators got the Negroes reinstated...
...progress made by institutions of other conservative churches that have been willing to accept federal money. A case in point is Tennessee's struggling Belmont College, founded in 1951, which refuses all federal aid and is kept alive by doles from the state Baptist convention. In plant and personnel, Belmont cannot compare with nearby David Lipscomb College, supported by the Churches of Christ, which took in more than $6,000,000 in federal funds during 1965 alone...
Ford's Alexandria assembly plant has been virtually idle for 18 months because Egypt refuses to free hard currency to pay for imported components. Last week Egyptian authorities seized not only that $3,000,000 plant but all other Ford assets in Egypt on the disputed grounds that the company owes $1.8 million in customs duties on cars previously assembled there for the Egyptian market...
...statement is made in a parable about a potter who is happy making pots. All day long the wheel turns and the plant on the window sill sings like a bird. Then one day the door to the potters shop bursts open and a vast impersonal Hand walks in. It smashes the potter's pots and arrogantly commands him to reshape them in the image of the Hand. When the potter refuses, it plies him with presents. When he continues to refuse, it threatens him with death. Finally it ties strings to his head and hands and turns...