Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barnett Newman, 62, better known as an abstract expressionist, has recently attracted attention with his sculpture. His 26-foot-high Broken Obelisk, now standing outside the Seagram Building, was built at the Lippincott Environmental Arts fabrication plant in North Haven, Conn. Newman supervised each step of the process, had to draw a sloping line across the top of the inverted obelisk to show workmen exactly where to cut. Then the base was "flame cut"-i.e., burned with a cutting torch, in order to leave a grainy pattern of vertical lines...
...cost of building new sculptures. Les Levine, whose transparent Star Garden was shown at Manhattan's Modern Museum this spring (TIME, May 5), built his work with $2,000 worth of plastics and labor donated by American Cyanamid. Businessman Don Lippincott is the angel behind the North Haven plant where Broken Obelisk was fabricated, invested $100,000 in it so that sculptors could produce works for civic groups and industry. U.S. Steel supplies Lippincott with its new Cor-Ten steel, which weathers to a russet brown, at a generous saving. Bethlehem Steel let Robert Murray use its San Pedro...
...Teeside in Yorkshire, the government rebated 45% of the cost be cause it lay in a depressed region. On top of that, notes a Shell managing director, F. S. McFadzean, "the Selective Employment Tax and another scheme known as the Regional Employment Premium reward hiring more labor at the plant in spite of the subsidy it already has for laborsaving equipment-and somebody else pays for it in higher taxes." He adds: "Profit is still a dirty word with this government...
...plant of Magnavox, Inc.; at the other end, ABC-TV continued to operate while striking technicians pounded pavemejits. In all, the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service was faced with calls to mediate 207 strikes affecting 261,000 workers in 32 states. Labor's continuing militancy (TIME, Sept. 22) is more than matched by hard-nosed managements, and the number of "major" strikes occurring as a result makes this the worst year for labor-management relations since...
Mendoza learned his Yankee savvy at the National University of Mexico, where he supplemented his studies by reading all the U.S. engineering trade magazines he could find. To get some on-the-job training, he took a laborer's job at night at a caustic-soda plant being constructed by Chemico of New York. There, by his own recollection, he picked the brains of every American technician he could find. It was, he says, a "live opportunity...