Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Harry Bertoia, 63, Italian-born sculptor and furniture designer; of a pulmonary hemorrhage; in Barto, Pa. Bertoia first achieved recognition in 1952 when he unveiled his now classic chair: an upholstered, diamond-shaped wire shell sus pended in a steel cradle. He was later noted for welding metal rods and plates into dandelion-like bursts and honeycombed wall screens, and for creating his "sounding sculptures," clusters of wires and bars that turned sonorous when brushed by hand or wind...
Robin Hood and men of steel...
...planned; reporters speculated that he was meeting secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented the plan...
...only by Chicago and New York. Most Clevelanders thought they had escaped becoming a national joke last year when they voted out Mayor Ralph Perk. He once set his hair ablaze with a welding torch while showing his affinity for the workingman during a campaign appearance at a local steel mill...
...some good news about U.S. industry's competitive strength. In the third quarter of this year, according to a poll of 548 large companies by the Wall Street Journal, average aftertax profits were up by 21%, compared with the same period last year. Airlines and the steel industry posted big increases; General Motors' net income rose by 31% to $528 million, its highest quarterly earnings ever...