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What's wrong with the U.S. missile-base construction program? Last week, as the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, began hearings in Washington, it was evident that plenty is. Besides union troubles (TIME, Aug. 15), workmanship on the pads has often been shockingly sloppy; pieces of wooden plank, loose bolts, and cigarette butts have been found in the propellant-fuel storage tanks...
There was more logic than that to the choice. Hard-driving John Dykstra has helped Ford make substantial progress in solving a prime problem-quality control. As vice president for manufacturing, he has haunted the production lines, insisting on tighter inspection, better workmanship. Chiefly through his efforts Ford raised the quality of its cars and trucks so markedly that it was able to catch the rest of the industry by surprise last October by offering a twelve-month or 12,000-mile warranty instead of the then standard three months or 4,000-mile guarantee. Says Dykstra: "We are striving...
Because of Thailand's humid climate, few paintings have survived, but the sculpture is more than sufficient to show the paradoxical versatility of Thailand's artists. The bronze Bodhisattva (see color) is a masterpiece of intricate workmanship; the lithe little dancing figure, who was meant both to protect and entertain Buddha, bends solemnly to the tinkle of music. The Buddhas that the artists made usually hewed to a perfect blending of art and tradition. Buddha's legs, tradition said, were to be like those of a deer, his thighs like the stems of banana trees, his hands...
...team uncovered an elegant bronze relief of a boar, which exhibits Greek workmanship, a major discovery this season...
...seldom off them. People rarely sit, or even stand still; they drop funny remarks hastening in one direction, not so funny ones fleeing in another. Musically the show travels rather light, once or twice with an empty suitcase. But Bye Bye Birdie successfully elevates freshness above slickness, playfulness above workmanship, and can boast a spanking enough breeze to explain why things now and then get blown about...