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...Committee to the Paris conference: "Have we sufficient faith in God and the power of His word to let Him use us wholly for His purposes and not our own? Are we willing to be first His children, taught by Him, then His disciples, and finally His fellow workmen in the extension of His Kingdom? . . . We do not know; we hope and pray that this will happen...
HOTELS Connie's Baby All week long the immense, Y-shaped hotel building in Los Angeles rattled and rang while an army of workmen struggled with crisis piled upon crisis. The air conditioning refused to work; the special refrigerators in each room went on the blink; the rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world...
...points: Industry. "Conditions in America are very advanced and none can reach, let alone surpass, the progress in that country," said onetime Marxist U Nu. He cited examples. He had been skeptical that Ford could put a car together in two minutes, but while he watched, Ford workmen put one together in 58 seconds. In Knoxville, Tenn., a waiter in a small hotel told him he owned two cars (one for himself and one for his wife) and earned as much money as the Premier...
...conspiring to violate the Delaware school-attendance laws, thousands remained loyal. They paid no attention when the state attorney general accused him of fomenting mob rule; nor did they seem to mind that he had once been in trouble with the Baltimore police for failing to pay some workmen. Bryant Bowles was leading the Cause...
...said the big, bald foreman, "now comes Chile." His crew of overalled workmen hefted Chile's red, blue and white banner and set it next to Canada's on the stage of San Francisco's gilded opera house. The workmen had 60 flags, from Afghanistan's to Yugoslavia's, to put in place. The occasion: the United Nations, born in San Francisco in June 1945, was back in its birthplace to celebrate its tenth anniversary...