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...morale building, the city is hurting. For years the nation's second-largest automobile assembly center, St. Louis was devastated by the slump that hit the car industry in 1979. Unemployment is at 11%. A General Motors plant in the city, which once manufactured everything from pickup trucks to Corvettes and provided jobs for 10,000, now employs only 1,400. Chrysler Corp. closed its truck plant in nearby Fenton, throwing 4,300 people onto the street. There are some signs, however, that St. Louis may have more to cheer about next year than the World Series-winning Cardinals...
...exhibition of the work of David Smith at the National Gallery in Washington, which opened last November and will run until late April, is the most important show by an American sculptor in years. Smith died in 1965, when his pickup truck spun off a country road near his studio in Bolton Landing, an isolated little town in the Adirondacks. He was 58 and in the prime of his sculptural career. Only Jackson Pollock's fatal car crash nine years earlier subtracted so much, so soon, from American art. No sculptor of similar talent has appeared in America since...
...east partly responsible for pushing U.S. industry into its worst downturn since the Great Depression. But last week a group of grateful blue-collar workers in LaVergne, Tenn., a tiny factory town outside Nashville, welcomed the Japanese as saviors. Bridgestone Tire Co. of Japan bought LaVergne's truck-tire plant from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for $52 million. In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Satoshi Kishimoto, a Bridgestone executive who will be the plant's general manager, greeted 200 of his new employees with a cheery "Hi, you all." After he helped plant four tulip poplars, Tennessee...
...show at Castelli is Dirt Shrine: South, 1982, a pseudo combine in which all the disparate elements (tire track, painted chain, stone, bamboo ladder) were made from fired ceramic in Japan. The characteristic montage of Rauschenbergian imagery-a sumo wrestler holding a tiny alligator, schools of fish, a dump truck, and other elliptical images of ancient and modern Japan, mostly derived from photographs-is fired into the glaze. The result, a hybrid of traditional and new technologies, looks both archaic and slick...
...Houston police department's new statistical category-freeway traffic violence: 1) Driver flashes high-beam lights at car that cut in front of him, whose occupants then hurl a beer can at his windshield, kick out his tail lights, slug him eight stitches' worth. 2) Dump-truck driver annoyed by delay batters trunk of stalled car ahead and its driver with steel bolt. 3) Hurrying driver of 18-wheel truck deliberately rear-ends car whose driver was trying to stay within 55 m.p.h. limit. The Houston Freeway Syndrome has fortunately not spread everywhere. But the question is: Will...