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...dogs, doughnuts, cameras, tacos-whatever was sold inside-is said to have been struck by the thought that if the country were tilted, all the loose nuts and bolts would tumble down here. "I don't know whether I would like to know my neighbors here," Ernest T. Emery wondered in 1905. "I don't like the way some of them act." (Emery's and other trenchant observations employed in this account repose in a fine collection by Bruce Henstell called Los Angeles, an Illustrated History.) There is to this day a certain nuttiness to the place...
...failures of the 1930's and 1940's were brought about by stock manipulation; the companies underneath remained sound. That is not the case this time. The companies themselves are teetering. Warns Ernest Liu, energy analyst at New York City's Goldman, Sachs: "This is the closest utilities have come to bankruptcy in any time in our history...
...management has shot down more airplanes, sunk more ships and immobilized more soldiers than all our enemies in history put together," the witness told the crowded Senate hearing room last week. Pentagon Whistle Blower A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a management systems deputy for the Air Force, had been called to testify before Iowa Senator Charles Grassley's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that...
...tears that streaked down her face were not in the script, but Mariel Hemingway's testimony at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives was as moving as any Hollywood drama. The granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, who owns a cabin near her home town of Ketchum, Idaho, spoke against a bill that would preserve only 526,000 of Idaho's 8 million acres of wilderness. Hemingway, 22, at first read calmly from her prepared statement, but broke down when she got to a quotation from a monument to her grandfather. As she had said earlier, "My testimony...
...Freer exhibition is a fascinating show, for its context as well as its contents. Charles Lang Freer, who made his millions in rolling stock in the boom railroad years of the late 19th century, was an impassioned Orientalist, a disciple of the "Boston bonzes," chiefly of Ernest Fenollosa. As Bernard Berenson fanned the ardor of the American rich for the Italian Renaissance, so Fenollosa was busy shaping American taste for Oriental art. He adored Whistler's work, calling him "the nodule, the universalizer, the interpreter of East to West." Freer concurred, and in the 1890s he became Whistler...