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Many recent sculptors-Chamberlain, Stankiewicz, César, for example-have plundered the scrap heap for its rusty riches. Their assemblages look back on Marcel Duchamps' "ready-mades," or store-bought hardware, and Picasso's "found objects." Paolozzi also once combined bits of cameras, clocks, toys and bombsights into figures that looked like archaic idols or, as he said, "the fetishes of a Congo witch doctor." Now his work sets up a more modern paradox between engineering and art, and his breakaway from traditional values has made him spiritual uncle (where Henry Moore is spiritual father) to younger...
...already being squeezed toward full use of facilities, particularly steel, aluminum, machine tools, heavy machinery, autos and paper. The squeeze shows up not only in rising overtime in these industries but in slower delivery of key items and in the activation of plants that were formerly headed for the scrap heap. Aluminum capacity is so tight that Kaiser Aluminum plans to reopen a smelter in Tacoma that it shut down six years ago. U.S. Steel has just reopened a 47-year-old mill in Gary, Ind., to cope with the demand for heavy plate. A fifth of the nation...
...course through the same narrator, the dispassionate and indestructible lawyer, Lewis Eliot, whose Cambridge and London career parallels Snow's own. A Tory politician named Roger Quaife is trying to alter radically the course of defense policy in the late 1950s by persuading a Tory government to scrap Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, which he sees as ineffective, ruinously expensive, and a dangerous temptation to other small powers to compete in the atomic arms race. Quaife is a tough, experienced and well-connected Member of Parliament, clearly brilliant, ravenously ambitious but secretly something more: an idealist seeking...
...proof that builders who are shrewd and careful can ride high in spite of low tides has been provided by the Avondale yards, owned by Manhattan Financier Charles Allen's Ogden Corp., a widely diversified industrial complex (scrap iron, mining equipment, etc.). Avondale has developed a unique mobile assembly line for ships, even builds them upside down so that a welder can work in "downhand" comfort instead of a back-aching "overhead" position. In bidding for orders, Avondale's treasurer, Mrs. Hettie Dawes Eaves, employs a computer that figures the costs of 4,000 operations, is far more...
...compact companies also have special problems, are more vulnerable to competitive setbacks than their big brothers. Like many other small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants...