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...worked himself into a crisis," Marion said last night. "I practically had to push him into the finals with the point of my shoe...
...work also extends to automobile, locomotive, and factory design; here, too, he reached to handle the problems of society. The photographs in the exhibit show exactly how he solved some of these architectural problems: the walls of all glass, often called glass-curtain walls (as in the Fagus Shoe-Last Factory, 1911), convey an airiness and transparency never before attributed to building structures; the modular furniture and even buildings, like the faculty-housing for Dessau Bauhaus, are each really identical, but are built as mirror-image units, and are further differentiated by being placed at 90 degree angles...
Last week, responding to complaints from employees, the U.S. State Department ordered its executives to stop treating secretaries as "char help," to show a little more diplomacy toward them and to encourage independent secretarial decision making. Officials warned especially against the "reliable-old-shoe syndrome," in which secretaries are assumed to be content with the same duties throughout their career while almost everyone else moves...
SENATOR McGOVERN was up early on the day of the primary, shaking hands at a shoe factory in Manchester at about 8:30 a.m. I, and other reporters, followed him around inside as he spoke to each of the workers, all women, toiling over boots and shoes. The women were polite and friendly as McGovern talked to them, but they immediately went back to their work after he had moved on, and they paid little attention to the bright lights used by television crews and photographers...
...particularly striking example of the omnipresent hoard called the press was the Muskie tour of the Manchester shoe factory. The smiling Maine Senator, dressed in his gray wool body-fitting suit, weaved his way through huge barricades of incomplete shoes to shake hands with the factory workers. The press, about 50 of them, invaded the building chasing Muskie down aisles, questioning workers about their opinions, and cutting off the campaign team to get local-color pictures of Muskie with the workers...