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...Franchise Holder. Charles E. Johnson, 43, got into the franchised fast-food business through a combination of belated Government aid and militant pressure. The Small Business Administration rejected his first application for a loan to buy a McDonald's hamburger franchise near a Negro area of affluent Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb, because officers thought the location he wanted would not produce enough income to repay the loan. They did not realize, says a Cleveland Negro leader, that to blacks "the hamburger stand is breakfast, lunch and dinner-they don't just buy hamburgers as a snack...
...Punch. The chief irony of the power struggle was that it revolved around an office that is virtually powerless. As India's President, Giri will spend the next five years fulfilling largely ceremonial functions. Giri himself is not considered much of a mover and shaker these days, though in his youth he was a leading revolutionary. While he was studying law in Dublin, in fact, the British deported, him for his enthusiastic involvement in the Irish revolution. But that was long ago, and during the recent campaign his foes hinted that he was becoming senile. "Those who say that...
Fortunately, in everything except babies, early Shaker craftsmen were astonishingly productive. They invented a flat broom, an apple parer, a circular saw and many other labor-saving devices. Even now, their spare yet elegant furniture and utensils seem so modern that they are sought after and copied by architects and designers. Shaker villages were oases of austere grace and functionalism. "Wherever you go, you feel that you are beyond the realm of hurry," wrote one visitor in 1877. "There is no restlessness, or fret of business, or anxiety; it is as if the work was done...
Dairy in the Round. This week, over the Fourth of July, thousands of Americans will visit the two remaining active Shaker communities-near Portland, Me., and Canterbury, N.H.-as well as others in Pleasant Hill, Ky., Old Chatham, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass., where original Shaker buildings have been converted into museums. There they can buy Shaker jams, inspect Shaker houses, recapture a whiff of that eternal Shaker afternoon...
...1880s as "machinelike in its efficiency" and "a model for the soundest dairying practices." Settlers on the Great Plains dotted the Western frontier with timber versions of it-most of which have now rotted away. By the time the Hancock village was taken over by the Berkshires' Shaker Community, Inc. in 1960, huge cracks had appeared in the Shaker barn's walls and the interior had fallen into ruin. Refurbished with the aid of nearly $500,000 from Frederick W. Beinecke, S. & H. trading-stamp executive, plus construction materials donated at cost by the George A. Fuller...