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...easy to throw stones at the glass houses of Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. To traditionalists, who want their living and working places to combine comfort and beauty, Mies's stark, steel-ribbed structures seem as sterile-and ominous-as a steer's skeleton burned white in the desert sun. But Mies* is one of the most important architects of his time. Together with Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, he has had a profound influence on cityscapes of the 20th century...
Ford and General Motors were for the most part able to steer clear of such get-rich-quick newcomers. But many independent automakers were forced to take them on, and now they are in trouble. Said a Chicago dealer: "The weak sisters shouldn't have been in the business in the first place. They came in during the good years and made their pile, and now they're squawking...
...Lawrence were nil, he ended up by turning against the President again last week. ¶ Even New Jersey's Senator Alexander Smith, usually an Eisenhower Republican, last week displayed this same lack of party responsibility. As chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, Smith had the duty of helping steer to Senate passage the Administration's Taft-Hartley revision. But after the losing vote-which was a real Administration, and therefore a Republican, defeat-Smith warbled: "I'm just as cheerful as a dickeybird...
Linderman, who was born in Bridger, Mont., won his cowboy championship title by spending eleven months or so last year on a 75,000-mile rodeo-circuit tour and winning more prize money ($33,674) than any other rodeo man in the combined events: saddle bronc riding, steer wrestling, bareback riding and calf roping. The San Antonio rodeo was Linderman's fifth of the young 1954 season, after performances at Denver, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso. This week he pushes to Baton Rouge. His prize money for the year so far: more than...
...highest price ever paid at a livestock show. At Kansas City, Mo., in 1946, a Hereford steer brought...