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...says. "They come to me only when there's a mess." One such distress call came from Western Electric in Kansas City, which was having trouble with a certain production line. Working with the staff engineers, Tichauer evolved a pair of pliers with a 30° bend in the handle. As a result of this consideration for the human wrist, which tires quickly when awkwardly contorted, efficiency took an immediate and gratifying climb...
...news," Benti insists. "It is either new, or our way of approaching it is new." One of the new approaches is a continuing series on life in the ghetto, interpreted by Correspondent John Hart. By zeroing in on a two-block area along Washington's Columbia Road, the Bend team hopes to involve its audience in the problems and progress-or retrogression-of a small group of ghetto people...
...played on trains and around factories just like I played in hills and creeks. Machinery has never been an alien element; it's been in my nature." During his college years, he worked for a summer as a riveter and spot welder at Studebaker's South Bend plant. Looking through French art periodicals in his art-student days, he saw how Pablo Picasso, working with the Spanish metalworker Julio González, had built small sculptures of welded steel. In the fall of 1933, he abandoned painting, rented space in a machine shop called the Terminal Iron Works...
...race. Though some jockeys still resent women encroaching on their livelihood, their ranks cannot help looking up to Barbara Jo. At 5 ft. 5 in., she says, "most of the jockeys only come up to my shoulders. So when they go to take a group picture, I kind of bend my knees...
Rattling past this bend one June day in 1959 came the incarnate spirit of the emancipated and emancipating 20th century-a bright and determined Vassar girl in a Jeep. Neither the girl nor the town has ever been quite the same since. For between Ann Cornelisen and "Torregreca," the false name under which she has concealed the town's identity, a foreordained contest of wills took place. Chronicling this confrontation, the author might have been expected to produce another bumptious account (subtitle: The Triumph of Progress) of New World ways v. Old World meanies...