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...excitement swept through the company. Even organized labor went along with the idea. Since the planned products had never been made before by Allen-Bradley, workers would not be displaced by the new operation. Mindful of past job cuts, the union's leaders were at least happy to see the operation take root in Milwaukee. Says Ted Krukowski, president of Local 1111 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers: "There's concern, but there's also a feeling of accomplishment that our folks played a role...
...also been thinking long and hard about public art, which cubism never pretended to be. He was already a celebrity in Mexico. When Alvaro Obregon swept into office as President, Rivera found he had an enthusiast in the Minister of Education, Jose Vasconcelos, who invited him back to Mexico to take part in a huge program of public painting. In Mexico and Russia, unlike most of the early 20th century world, a fresco could still be counted on for political impact. Mexico had a huge illiterate population, used to learning doctrine by looking at images. Painting had little...
...they rolled away from Portland's fashionable Oregon Episcopal School, the 15 students and three adult leaders were swept up in the buoyant mood of people off for an adventure. The agenda: a fast round-trip climb of 11,239- ft. Mount Hood. By 2:30 a.m. on Monday last week, the group, light in spirits and equipment alike, had traveled the 70 miles to Hood's base and started the climb. Why not? They planned to get back before dark. The Rev. Thomas Goman, one of their leaders, had 18 similar climbs under his belt. They carried enough food...
...were interrupted by an unsettling warning from loudspeakers on the shrine's periphery. Outside the temple complex, police commandos and paramilitary forces stood by to reclaim the holy place from the Sikh extremists who had seized control three months before. Pilgrims were advised to leave. Soon afterward, 300 commandos swept into the outer offices of the complex, arresting student leaders. Then, with another 700 troops, they fanned out onto the marble pathway surrounding the main temple shrine, where the militants were holed up. The search for the extremists, punctuated by occasional gunfire, ended eight hours later as the last...
This represents a naive view of democracy, of the extent of U.S. power and of the nature of different regimes too easily swept up under the label "right-wing dictatorships" (or, with special enthusiasm, "tyrannies...