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Cincinnati-born Dine hit the Manhattan scene only three years ago, but his name is one to reckon with in avantgarde circles. Like a number of other rebels against abstract art, he began producing art not out of paint and canvas, but out of everyday objects. "I loved the city." he says, "I loved seeing so much being discarded. Every time you turned a corner, you'd see in the next trash can some wonderful piece of sculpture.'' So Dine became a member of the "found object" school-a group dedicated to the proposition that many...
...deal, amounting to a 13% hourly wage raise, adds its bit to inflation, and aggravates New York's existing shortage of skilled electricians (as one concession, Van Arsdale agreed to allow 1,000 additional apprentices to be trained). More important, the settlement made Van Arsdale a man to reckon with in the labor movement, breathed new life into U.S. labor's drive to spread the work as a way to counter automation. In this year's most crucial labor negotiations, David J. McDonald promises that his United Steelworkers will make reduced work time "a fighting issue...
...shares, issued at $64.50 five years ago when Ford went public, have climbed to a high of $117.50-a price so steep that it discourages purchases by small investors. Meanwhile, the stock of Ford's archrival, General Motors, has been selling briskly at around $55. Since the automakers reckon that a shareholder is likely to buy the car made by the company in which he has invested, Ford was understandably anxious to widen ownership of its stock...
...important, the misery-ridden land is now eligible to share in the Alliance for Progress. The day the OAS lifted its sanctions, the White House announced that an Alliance "task force" headed by Teodoro Moscoso, Latin American director of A.I.D., will speed to Santo Domingo (once Ciudad Trujillo) to reckon up the national dollar needs for recovery...
Since last spring, when the John Birch Society was flushed from the secrecy of its chapter meetings into public view, a new and militant minority of the far right has increasingly become a force to reckon with in U.S. political life. But last week came the reaction-and across the land, there was thunder against the ultra right...