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Handymen to the Hungry. Conference members work hard for their pay, are topnotch labor-relations experts and, for the most part, community pillars. Conference Chairman Clarence Beck of Salt Lake City, no kin to deposed Teamster Boss Dave Beck of Seattle, is a Mayflower descendant and Son of the American Revolution. But an important few serve as Teamster policymakers and handy men to power-hungry bosses. Examples...
...same is true in cameras. Through the efforts of such topnotch firms as Nikon and Canon, whose cameras are cheaper and almost as good as the best German makes, Japan now enjoys a $6,800,000 export market in the U.S. The Japanese are convinced that it could be bigger still were it not for dozens of other camera makers, who get around export regulations by labeling their third-rate products "toys." Once Japanese businessmen winked at the practice. Today, it aggravates them so that Matsushita Electric Industries Co., Japan's biggest electrical-communications maker, withdrew from...
...topnotch builder last week to straw-boss its 41,000-mile interstate-highway program. In Washington, Federal Highway Administrator Bertram Tallamy chose Ellis Leroy Armstrong, 44, a nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncussing Mormon who heads Utah's Road Commission, to be his "executive vice president" and the man responsible to oversee actual construction. As commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Armstrong not only must pour the concrete, but also smooth the waters as conciliator between the states and the Government on history's biggest public works project...
...well designed, the new Chrysler Art Museum features 76 oils and 12 sculptures, ranging from Hieronymus Bosch to Picasso. Valued at $1,700,000, the exhibition is but a fraction of Chrysler's total collection ("I began buying at 14, out of my allowance"), includes some topnotch masterpieces (Tintoretto's Flora, Titian's Portrait of the Admiral Vincenzo Capello, Soutine's Valet de Chambre), as well as some not-so-great works by great masters (Renoir's Pheasant, Derain's Renaissance-style Portrait of Lady Adby), which have good names if not topmost quality...
...dainty Colette novelette. Once a French movie, once a Broadway play, the spicy little tidbit is now a full-course feast for eyes and ears, an extravagant $3,000,000 cinemusical with four bright stars (Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Eva Gabor), a strong supporting cast, a topnotch director (Vincente Minnelli). words and music by My Fair Lady's Lerner and Loewe,* and some flooringly flamboyant sets and costumes by Cecil Beaton...