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...WEALTHIEST CITY: Shaker Heights (pop. 36,460), near Cleveland, with a median family annual income* of $13,933. Second: suburban Wilmette, on the North Shore near Chicago...
...band's brasses, Walker attempted a reading of three selections from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. The march had excited the audience, the band's Boris immediately let them down. Exposed woodwind passages were occasionally sloppy, intonation in the cornets wavered, and the pace dragged. Variations on a Shaker Melody by Copland was marred by dissonances Copland never intended, and the first half of the program ended somewhat dully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of Nobles, despite displays of virtuosity by the brasses and percussion...
...countryside were having the time of their lives-sort of. The group, headed by Agriculture Minister Konstantin Pysin, had traveled from coast to coast during the past month, last week wound up in California's fabled San Joaquin Valley. The visitors ogled Fred DeBenedetti's mechanical tree shaker that tumbled walnuts to the ground, stared while other mechanized arms swept up the piles of nuts. When William Machado, a bean farmer, said that he had suffered no loss at all in harvesting his crop, the Russians-who could only judge by the chaotic conditions back home-simply...
Gold for Ballast. Saxon's wall shaker was a proposal to allow national banks to set up branches within 25 miles of their home offices, though laws in 34 states expressly restrict or prohibit branch banking, even by nationally chartered banks. Left at a competitive disadvantage, most bankers fear, state-chartered banks would immediately shift to national charters, and soon only a single, nationally supervised banking system would survive. This, they argue, would destroy the cherished "dual system" of banking, with its checks and balances against heavy-handed regulation. Saxon's argument: branching restrictions merely protect well-entrenched...
...reticent man, Sheeler has often seemed as enamored of his powerful planes as more romantic artists were of their human models. He once spent six weeks photographing the Ford plant in Detroit, filled his home with the severe Shaker furniture that he loved to photograph...