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...suspension of the national law promises some savings in the construction of garden apartments and other low-rise rental units. In Atlanta, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Cincinnati and other metropolitan areas where commercial construction is unionized but most housing projects are not, builders have been reluctant to erect even heavily subsidized apartments because of the prevailing-wage law. "I haven't been building any rental projects under the Federal Housing Administration," says Louisville Builder George Martin. "Now that Davis-Bacon is suspended, I'm going to start planning some...
...raise our children free of the hang-ups we see in ourselves and our generation," Dr. Taylor explained recently. "We weren't going to use that cop-out of 'because the Bible tells you so.' " James' mother, Trudy Taylor, is the daughter of a Massachusetts fisherman and boat builder who before her marriage trained seriously as a lyric soprano. She had seen fondness for music so tormented by formal training that, though James, Livingston, Alex and Kate all took up various instruments (violin, cello, piano), they seldom took lessons for long. Mrs. Taylor did not go to church. Instead...
...spate of other recent cases serve as reminders that the law is, in fact, a vibrant anti-discrimination weapon. In New York State, for instance, Builder Samuel Lefrak has just signed a court-sanctioned agreement with the Government on some important anti-discrimination regulations for private housing. Prodded by a federal suit, which has now been dropped. Lefrak has promised to process all apartment applications with a time clock to ensure that first come are truly first served. Lefrak credit investigations will consider blacks and whites equally, accepting anyone whose weekly income is 90% of the monthly rent. The Federal...
...lavender sky, feeling as though he too is lying with the victims who struggle in burnt-orange groups at the bottom of the painting. A lone gantry pushed ladderlike toward the dying sun, but stops and returns to the ground with its own image of circular death, the builder's wrecking ball, suspended over the death-groups...
...Berkeley, who in the early Depression era collaborated on such Warner Bros, extravaganzas as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, Footlight Parade and a spate of other Late Late Show favorites. Ruby has spent 30 retirement years in the wings, most of the time happily married to an industrial builder. But the roar of the greasepaint has drawn her irresistibly back to Broadway, where she started her career at the age of 13 in the chorus of a musical called The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly...