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...authority on labor law and a one-time labor mediator, he is currently collaborating with John T. Dunlop, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, on a study of the contemporary problems of labor unions. In 1963, Bok helped mediate the Florida East Coast Railway dispute...
...said, "pleases no one," and is, in fact, "outmoded." He proposed no grand new scheme, but fell back instead on one of his favorite devices by appointing an 18-member Commission on Income Maintenance Programs, to be headed by Ben Heineman, board chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railway. The group was instructed to "examine any and every plan, however unconventional, which could promise a constructive advance in meeting the income needs of all the American people...
...rest of the evening included a static sports roundup (a ten-minute speech by an athletic functionary, scenes of a factory woman doing calisthenics), a performance of Chekhov's Platonov's Loves, Thirty Minutes with the Hungarian Railway Philharmonic, and a half-hour newscast, with headlines read by a tight-lipped blonde. As with the rest of East European television, Hungary's news presentation carries virtually no film footage, nor even voice reports from foreign correspondents. The lead item usually updates what the satellite networks call America's "dirty aggressive war against the brave, peace-loving...
...swelled, and "News of the Day" or Pathe's crowing rooster flashed on the screen. Even the grimness of today's on-the-spot TV coverage of Viet Nam had parallels in the scene of an injured Chinese baby bawling in the ruins of the Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until TV showed the funeral of President Kennedy, nothing Americans saw in the newsreels had ever stirred them quite so much as the bombing of Pearl Harbor 26 years...
...Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely a semi-public affair, as in Queen Victoria's railway carriage (sapphire satin and tasseled draperies with a white quilted ceiling) and not merely ostentatious, as in the dining room at London's Ritz Hotel ("the most beautiful Edwardian restaurant in existence...