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...Oklahoma City's northern edge, in 41 acres of what was once part of a golf course, workmen are busy this week installing an organ in the Church of Tomorrow. That is what Pastor Bill Alexander calls it. Some Oklahomans refer to it as Space Headquarters, and that is all right with Pastor Bill. For his First Christian Church is all but out of this world...
...bring the British economy into healthy balance and end inflation might have called for expansion of national productivity on a scale such as West Germany has achieved. But British workmen, though 99% employed, adhere to their old habits of featherbedding; and many British employers shy away from free competition, and prefer obsolescence to bestirring themselves...
...Workmen's compensation laws had not yet been passed in Pennsylvania. With McDonald's wages halted, the family looked for means of support. Mary McDonald took in washing and baked bread. David and his younger brother Joseph delivered papers. No matter how low their funds got, Mary McDonald insisted they remember one thing: they were lace-curtain Irish, not shanty Irish. Accordingly, she sent the boys off to St. Stephen's parochial school to get all the education they could. Their clothes were patched but clean. At St. Stephen's, David was a top student...
Signs & Portents. Signs of the boom are apparent everywhere. On what used to be wasteland at the edge of Mexico City, workmen recently planted 10,000 lampposts along the street network of a big new housing development. One of Latin America's biggest medical centers is rising on 33 acres of downtown land-and it is only one of 6,000 new buildings, many of them spectacularly clad in plate glass or bright-colored masonry, that are going up yearly in the capital...
CUSSING in a dozen tongues, workmen sweated last week in steamy Venice to finish modern art's biggest Babel. By week's end Venice's biennial roundup of contemporary painting and sculpture, due to open this week, had installed only a quarter of the nearly 6,000 paintings and sculptures sent in from 34 countries (including Russia for the first time since 1934). Only at the prim brick American Pavilion did contentment reign. Brisk, brusque Katharine Kuh, curator of modern painting at Chicago's Art Institute, had the U.S. contribution all up and dusted. It made...