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...whatever the pleasures of Milan in the late '30s, the countervailing fact was that Steinberg, a Jew?and a foreign Jew at that???was living under a Fascist regime which grew more anti-Semitic by the week. He graduated as a Dottore in Architettura in 1940; and on his diploma, awarded in the name of Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy, King of Albania and (thanks to Mussolini and his bombers) Emperor of Ethiopia, was written "Steinberg Saul... di razza Ebraica "(of the Jewish race). "It was some kind of safeguard for the future, meaning that although...
...exasperating, dismaying, frustrating, challenging ?all those things." Blithely disregarding her fall in favor, she has already announced that she will run for another term when her first one is up in 1981. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wryly thanked her for not announcing for the presidency. Small chance of that???Dixy Lee Ray relishes too much delivering thunderbolts from the Olympia of her own Washington...
...Cossacks and gypsies, he drew his inspiration from "the streets of New York." One YSL eyecatcher: a tricolored cotton shirt worn with sailcloth pants. His ready-to-wear clothes were modern, young and?with one or two see-through and derriere-baring exceptions?eminently wearable on Manhattan's avenues. That???if not his prices ($500 or more) ?will doubtless bring Yves new acceptance as a guru turned pragmatist...
...longer term, demand is kept high, probably too high, by a post-World War II psychological phenomenon. Americans have come to look on a home of their own?and a pretty big, detached, single-family house at that???as not just a desire but a need and almost a right. They are being unrealistic. To shelter the entire nation in spaced-out, single-family houses near metropolitan centers would be a physical impossibility; to house even a substantial portion that way is turning out to be enormously expensive...
Profits and other incentives are indispensable to any economic progress. A product or service that is sold for exactly the cost of producing it yields no margin to raise wages, buy new machinery or pursue research leading to new products. Only profits can finance that???whether in a capitalist or a socialist society...