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Just one little demurrer. TIME credited the builders, architects, designers, planners for this unprecedented achievement. Only one group went unmentioned, the men who built these edifices-the bricklayers, ironworkers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, operating engineers, lathers, in short, the building tradesmen, those who brave freezing weather, driving rains, torrid sunshine and who sometimes gamble-and lose-life and limb to erect these grandiose edifices...
...Association for Free Body Culture; today there are some 50,000, as well as several hundred thousand freelance cultists who loll in the buff on the 80 officially sanctioned nudist beaches specially set aside for them by the West German government. Of the organized German nudists, most are laborers, tradesmen and white-collar workers. But not all. Clad only in signet ring and cigar, some of Germany's richest and most famed industrialists also frolic in the buff at exclusive North Sea beaches. What they all have in common, explains an earnest West German sociologist, is a need...
...recent opinion poll shows that only 9% of the French sympathize with the S.A.O., 26% have no opinion or are undecided, 65% are against it. The S.A.O. label in France covers all sorts of right-wing crackpots, from Poujadist tradesmen to old men who were purged as Nazi collaborators at the liberation, to hard-breathing young militants of the neo-fascist Jeune Nation group. The working class is vehemently anti...
Exports last year gained 7½% (to a record $5.8 billion), and by holding down imports, Canada enjoyed its first merchandise trade surplus since 1956. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees, who likes to wear gold cufflinks initialed G.O.Y.B.S.A.S. (meaning "Get Off Your Back Side And Sell"), sent his tradesmen to cultivate markets wherever they could find them. Canadian sales to Eastern Europe are up 90%, to Latin America 36%, to Asia a muscular 61% (to $312 million). Biggest Asian customer is famine-struck Red China, which has engaged to buy $425.6 million worth of Canadian grain over the next...
...public relations director. In the interests of modern efficiency, North Carolina's Belmont Abbey has forsworn some customary monastic pursuits: 15 years ago, all of Belmont's cooking and shoemaking was done by monks; now they have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar...