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MEXICO. The handsome pavilion is designed so that most of it can be viewed from couches and comfy basket chairs. From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others. And outside the pavilion, the "Flying Eagles of Papantla" scale a 114-ft. pole four times a day and float back down to earth...
Duty to Run. It isn't easy. U.S. laws governing self-protection derive from the ancient English common law that held that a medieval Briton was obliged to retreat until his back was literally to a wall or a ditch before he was justified in fighting off an assailant. This so-called "retreat law" has been substantially modified in American courts, which have generally ruled that though a person must attempt to avoid trouble, he is not legally bound to flee if such action would increase his peril. Only Texas law ignores retreat altogether and permits an attacked person...
...ascetic and humble man, Mclntyre entered the priesthood late in life. Born in Manhattan, the son of an invalided former city employee, he attended public high school, City College and Columbia University at night, while working days for a Wall Street brokerage firm. At 29, he turned down the offer of a partnership to enter St. Joseph's Seminary at Yonkers, N.Y. He was ordained in 1921, spent two years as a curate in a Manhattan church, then put his financial skills to work as an administrative officer in New York's archdiocesan chancery. So successful...
FRESH out of the field artillery in 1946, Paul L. Miller took a trainee's job at Wall Street's First Boston Corp. "to give me eating money while I looked around to see what I wanted to do." It turned out to be a tour of extended duty. Last week Miller, at 44, was named president of the nation's largest underwriting house, which last year placed $2 billion worth of securities. He will be in charge of underwriting, serve as the youngest of the firm's three chief executives (others: Chairman Emil Pattberg...
Builders have seen the vacancy signs on the wall, and in many cities are slowing down. Office construction so far this year is off $20 million in Los Angeles; Phoenix builders recently cut a planned 18-story building to ten stories. In New York City, where a tightening of the zoning code has complicated the contractors' problems, apartment construction is only one-third what it was a year ago. But Southern California builders are constructing 25% more apartments than last year...