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...When a delegation of Mexico City streetcar men visited him, he gave them a 7? daily wage increase. Indignant sugarcane workers tramped into his paneled office, complained that the unions in their industry were fighting among themselves. Alemán promised to look into...
...dresser, paints on a time-clock daily schedule in a corner of his small, commonplace living room. Magritte considers Dali an excellent businessman ("he is rich") but has intense scorn for fellow Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux, who paints luscious nudes picking roses in classic landscapes, with now & then a streetcar lurking about in the background (TIME, Dec. 30). Painter Delvaux, Magritte thinks, "has exploited surrealism as he would have exploited pork-butchery...
Investment. In Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Quadros responded to a hospital's appeal for blood donors, fell off a streetcar next day and lost a leg, pulled through with a transfusion of his own blood...
Genaro was a Morelia carpenter just come to the capital when, on Oct. 3, 1920, he bumped his head getting off a streetcar and fell beneath the wheels. He lay in the street while Mexico's Red Cross and White Cross (then hot rivals for every body found in the streets) argued about who should get him. A woman stepped from the crowd and applied a tourniquet; but gangrene set in, and when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little...
They discovered that he had been adopted as a foundling by a Steubenville, Ohio streetcar conductor, had grown up into a cold and secretive youth who kept his room jammed with chemical equipment, showed little interest in anything else. They guessed that his knowledge of chemistry was self-taught-M.I.T. had no record of him. But he should have been familiar with perchloric acid's dangerous characteristics-he had worked as a chemist at Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel plant and for the Douglas Aircraft...