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...daughter-in-law until her death in 1964. Scholars hoped that it would one day be open to the public; now, unless a committee hastily formed to preserve it succeeds in raising $350,000 ($100,000 has already been pledged) by July, Olana will be doomed by the wrecker's ball...
...call themselves the Anonymous Arts Recovery Society, has managed to cart off for posterity more than 100 tons of chips off notable old blocks. Led by its founder, Ivan Karp, a 38-year-old pop art dealer, the society's hundred dues-paying sympathizers rally wherever the wrecker's ball threatens. Favorite salvage is the architectural ornamentation carved by unknown immigrant European stonemasons who embellished New York's great turn-of-the-century construction boom. On occasion, however, it is the handiwork of a not-so-anonymous Stanford White or Louis Sullivan...
...incomes increase, more cars are made, and they have ever shorter lives; 2) the price of scrap metal has dropped as the steel industry has converted from open-hearth furnaces, which use up to 45% scrap metal, to oxygen furnaces, which use only 27% scrap. The price an auto wrecker gets for his scrap has fallen to around $10 a car, with the result that many wreckers have allowed car carcasses to pile up, in hopes of a rise in the market. One hopeful cure for this national eyesore was proposed this month by Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall...
...praising Scranton for preaching unity. Scarcely 24 hours after Goldwater's defeat, Rockefeller zeroed in on him with cleated boots. It takes no courage to kick a man when he is down, while his wounds are still raw and bleeding. Rockefeller seems to be a compulsive wrecker, whether it is a home or a party...
...Damn, You've Growed." Baseball, as far as Bauer could see, was best forgotten. Who wanted a shrapnel-pocked outfielder with malaria? He joined the pipe fitters' union in East St. Louis, got a job as a wrecker, dismantling an old factory. His Brother Joe Bauer was tending bar at a neighborhood pub, and Hank started dropping by for a beer after work. That was where a roving baseball scout named Danny Menendez found him. "Menendez was asking Joe whatever happened to his 'little brother, Hank,' " laughs Bauer, by then a strapping 190-lb. six-footer...