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...generation ago, when it was really avantgarde, Frank Lloyd Wright built the famous Johnson home office in Racine-a windowless, block-long building, framed on the outside by 43 miles of glass tubing; on the inside columns taper from the ceiling like giant golf tees. Wright's aim was to create "as inspiring a place to work in as any cathedral ever was to worship in." He might have had something there. The paternalistic, nonunion company has never suffered a strike, never laid off a worker. Even during the Depression it kept everybody working, though some men did nothing...
...pallbearers, their white-gloved hands moving in careful precision folded to a tight triangle the flag that had covered Kennedy's coffin for two days. Jackie took it and, hugging it to her breast, took a taper and lighted a blue flame at the foot of the grave-an "eternal light." Bobby and Teddy Kennedy touched taper to flame too, then they turned to go, and the funeral of John Kennedy was over...
Mayor James S. Baker, 45, is well aware that Pomona's new civic excitement will taper off, no matter how successful the project is. Addressing one of the many delegations from other cities that have visited Pomona to study the pros and cons of malls, he warned: "We realize that this spirit can't last forever, but we are trying to get as much done as we can while the spirit lasts...
...five-eighths of an ounce, the next three-quarters, the next seven-eighths, the next one ounce and the last an ounce and a quarter. Says George Walton, owner of the American Bartenders School in Chicago: "Most shot glasses today are sort of an optical illusion. Some of them taper so much on the inside that you can't even get your little finger into the bottom of the glass." What looks like solid whisky is usually nearer to solid glass...
...called "Brood II," which will soon take over most of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Connecticut. According to Dr. B. A. Porter, entomologist at the Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Md., the 1962 plague should be in full swing (and cry) by the end of May, should taper off about the first of July...