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...have trouble between workers and directors?" Assured that disagreements were always worked out, Khrushchev shook his head skeptically and said, "You're a little boastful but, of course, Mama always says her children are the most beautiful. You've got your shortcomings -but then so do we." Plaster Bust. Warming up, Khrushchev demanded: "What is the most important problem now? It is to beat capitalism. The one who creates the most through mass production will...
...mixed, and the camera is held by a master (Giuseppe Rotunno). What's more, the camera is pointed at something fiercely beautiful: Sicily. Yellow palazzi peep through dark-green foliage like colossal lemons; vast rococo ball rooms drown the mind in a delirium of pink cherubs and gilt-plaster scrolls; and out of the dark-blue sea the big Sicilian mountains leap like orange flames...
...York's emergency pavilion is almost a complete hospital in miniature. It has full X-ray facilities, its own laboratory, a suite of three operating rooms, a modern plaster room for prompt immobilization of fractures, a room for ear-nose-throat cases and dental emergencies. The only major demand not met on the spot is for "something in the eye": ophthalmic examinations require expensive and delicate equipment that would be uneconomic to duplicate, and patients are sent to the regular eye department on another floor...
Wallant's people are the walking wounded and unofficial dead of the affluent society. They inhabit what is known in officialese as "substandard housing," but they are figures in a land scape of hell. Wallant writes with lyrical affection of falling plaster, the colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among...
...great that last week the Illinois Council for Mentally Retarded Children was agitating to have a state of emergency declared in Chicago. Health Commissioner Samuel Andelman chose what seemed to him more practical measures. He arranged to have 30 building inspectors take special evening courses in paint and plaster peeling problems. With every poisoning case reported, the inspectors can go to the home and check the paint and plaster. If they are laced with lead, the board of health can close the house...