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Davis, 30, who is a veteran of the peace wars and one of the Chicago Seven, met with some resistance as he gathered his cadres. He wanted to carry out a nonviolent demonstration, and many hard-core radicals considered nonviolence a romantic relic of the past. Others were reluctant to participate because, as one organizer put it, "Mayday looked like an engraved invitation to a conspiracy trial." Still, Davis gathered an impressive file of 3-in.-by-5-in. cards listing potential organizers; by November he had established a nuclear staff of four or five that was to expand...
Despite its staggering growth, El Monte oddly manages to retain a small-town atmosphere. It could be a relic from a blue-collar edition of Norman Rockwell's America. The pace in El Monte is just a bit slower than in Los Angeles, the people are just a bit friendlier. Hands dirtied by honest work are still a badge of honor. Few people drink at lunch: television is the usual evening entertainment. The merchants run their own stores, and when they talk, city hall listens...
Meanwhile, Fairchild has plenty to occupy him in just churning out Women's Wear and battling for the midi. Field headquarters for the fray is Fairchild Publishing's grubby third-floor editorial room, a noisy, bare-floored relic straight out of Front Page, where editors shout and ink-stained copy boys scurry. A few feet away from Fairchild's scarred, wooden desk sits Publisher Brady, who starts the day at WWD by calling the top editors together for a brutal analysis of that morning's issue. "That sketch on Page One today is grotesque," he snapped at a recent session...
...ornate -fine old chandeliers, green woodwork, delicately forged iron. The Louis XV décor in a synagogue seems as out of place as the large cross formed by the windows. The window arrangement, however, is entirely appropriate: for the synagogue of Carpentras, near Avignon, is a relic of a strange medieval relationship between the papacy and a Jewish community...
...That connection established, Barthel turned to the tocapus embroidered on one notable Inca relic-a priestly garment, or uncu, now in Washington's Bliss Collection. He decided that the repetition of some of the tocapus meant that the same message was being emphasized. More important, he noticed that several signs, like Chinese pictograms, resembled real objects. That enabled him to pick out the symbols for the supreme Inca deity, Kon Ticsi Viracocha (popularly, Kon-Tiki), who is represented by the tocapu for heat (kon) and two bases of pyramids (ticsi), meaning foundation and earth. By the time Barthel finished...