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Produced in Greek walnut, bronze and leather, Gibbings' collection of 19 pieces, almost totally handcrafted, costs a Pyrrhic $10,000, but Gibbings hopes to mass-produce a complete line in Greece for the more modest buyer. "People are now ready to accept the classical environment in their homes," says Gibbings. "We need to return to the ancient Greek practice of perfecting existing things and not trying to forget them by producing shinier new ones...
...handful of segregation cases, Rives has invariably decided for liberalism, but not always without a twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic one for the Negro plaintiffs since the city was sure to close the parks rather than obey (it did). Last year also, in the Goldsby case, Rives established the far-reaching principle that Negroes cannot be convicted of crime in counties that bar them from jury service...
...finding literate officials to prepare the handwritten ballots-Iran last week tallied up the results of the election of a new, 200-seat Majlis (Parliament). As the returns trickled in, Premier Manouchehr Eghbal and his conservative Nationalists seemed assured of at least 150 seats. But it proved a Pyrrhic victory...
Konrad Adenauer's decision to resign the German Chancellorship "may have been a Pyrrhic victory for Dr. Ludwig Erhard," Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Profesor of the Science of Government, said Wednesday...
Juno (book by Joseph Stein, music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein, dances by Agnes de Mille) is a Pyrrhic victory of Broadway talent over an Irish genius. This musical version of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock paradoxically mutes O'Casey's inner music with song, fetters his soaring spirit with dance, and deflects the lyric flow of his dialogue into prosy pools of talk...