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Police cars poured into the block?and even as the cops plunged into the church, some enraged Negroes began throwing rocks at them. Rescue workers found a seven-foot pyramid of bricks where once the girls' bathroom stood. On top was a child's white lace choir robe. A civil defense captain lifted the hem of the robe. "Oh, my God," he cried. "Don't look!" Beneath lay the mangled body of a Negro girl...
Planned Blessings. China's future depends largely upon the pillars of the party: the army and the students. From all three must come the skills and dedi cation needed to deal with the staggering problems posed by overpopulation and underproduction. At the top of the pyramid is Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whom the party acknowledges to be omnipotent and incapable of mistakes. The people are endlessly told that Mao is the sun, the lodestar, the living Buddha, and he is said to be far greater "than the empty, hypocritical and negative Jesus Christ." Peasants are taught to sing...
...industry hit a depression in 1958 Flick turned out to be set with plenty of cash. With an unerring sixth sense for economic trends, he resisted advice to concentrate all he had in steel, decided that most growth would be in autos, chemicals and paper, and set out to pyramid his holdings in each field. He bought 40% control of prestigious Daimler-Benz (Mercedes) to form a solid auto base, got a small car to sell by adding the struggling Auto Union. In an age of business managers, Flick is still an imperious and self-confident tycoon. "One must have...
From Lions to Titans. Elevators of a sort were around long before Elisha Otis. Crude elevators run by manpower lifted stones for Cheops' pyramid in 2900 B.C., later carried gladiators and lions to the arena level of Rome's Colosseum. There were even steam-powered elevators operating several years before Otis developed his, but Otis worked out a system of springs and ratchets that prevented elevators from falling when hoisting ropes broke. He thus set off a revolution in construction...
...franchised bottlers around the world (61 in the U.S.), sending them the essence and forcing them to airship samples of ingredients and products to England for testing. At the same time, the company carefully oversees advertising and leans toward stylish copy. "We start at the top of the pyramid," says one executive, "because we know the levels underneath will follow the people immediately above...