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...plastic elements and abstract design have the same qualities of solemnity and simplicity; the concern for the essential; the regularity of the whole; and the flat streamlined look of their Egyptian counterparts. The most successful architectural use of the wall relief so far are the murals in the Olivetti showroom in New York where Nivola worked from the beginning of the stores construction with the architects. They show most clearly the influences of which he speaks: "Sardinian prehistoric constructions and sculptures, traditional costumes, the baker and craftsman." They imply perpectives beyond that of the more anonymous abstract design beyond...
...striking salesmen demanded more money. Specifically, they asked for a straight 5% commission on each sale (previously they had received 5% of the difference between the new car price and the trade-in allowance). Other demands: limitation of manpower on the showroom floors, prohibition of mass firings, a 40-hour week and paid vacations...
Auto credit is not as serious a danger as you picture in TIME, Aug. 22. Your claim that the auto purchaser owes more than his car is worth for the first 9½ months after he drives it from the showroom is not correct, and the frightening-looking graph alongside is misleading. In the text, you say that the customer pays 25% down ("common terms nowadays"). This means that he owes initially only $1,800, which is less than the $1,920 the car is then worth . . . You ought to correct the impression given by the chart...
...Poll. To find out what the public wants in the car of tomorrow, Chrysler Corp. put on display in its main Manhattan showroom three custom-made dream cars (Falcon, Flight Sweep I and II), fitted out with such futurisms as roofed headlights, curved window glass, external dual exhausts, control panel on a pedestal sandwiched between bucket seats, padded doors, and carpets fused over foam rubber. None of the supercars is a production prototype: Chrysler hopes to whet appetites for its 1956 cars and, by eavesdropping on car fans, to pick out salable features for its 1957 and 1958 models...
...biggest worry for finance companies are the marginal buyers who are living beyond their incomes. In a Pennsylvania showroom last week, the wife of a $79-a-week machinist was fondly eying a $5,100 pink Lincoln Capri; in Denver, Oldsmobile Dealer Alan Hoskins told of an eager buyer who earned $400 monthly and wanted a '55 Olds. "We figured out his income after house payments, furniture payments, TV payments, and after the car payment," said Hoskins, "he'd be left with $20 a month to live. I just couldn't let him get in deeper...