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...restorations at the White House (including the Oval Office), the State Department reception and drawing rooms (taking inspiration from 19th century Philadelphia houses, 18th century Virginia interiors and the notebooks of Thomas Jefferson), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; of a heart attack; in Albany, Ga...
Perhaps these ambitious native sons from such small towns as Plains, Ga., and Tampico, Ill., have an urge to overachieve so that they can compensate for their feelings of provincialism and insignificance...
Unions are now aggressively going after office workers. The OPEIU is mounting a major drive to organize 3,100 engineers, computer programmers and draftsmen at Lockheed's huge Marietta, Ga., aircraft plant; it is also lining up 5,000 employees nationwide at Government Employees Insurance Co. The 1.2 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the most aggressive recruiter in the AFL-CIO. One of AFSCME'S newest targets: engineers and programmers in Boston's booming high-technology firms. Meanwhile, the Teamsters won an election last October to represent 2,000 members...
...When Al Smith ran for President in 1928, Lippmann commuted to Albany in the Governor's private railway car to coach him on foreign policy, advise him on strategy, help write his acceptance speech. Shortly before Franklin D. Roosevelt took office, the two men lunched at Warm Springs, Ga., where Lippmann said: "The situation is critical, Franklin. You may have no alternative but to assume dictatorial powers." As the Depression worsened, Lippmann had lunch on Wall Street with a Morgan partner who urged him to advocate abandoning the gold standard. So Lippmann wrote the column, and a floundering stock...
...little darlings are parentless and begging to be taken home. They do not come from stork, or test tube, but from a former medical clinic in Cleveland, Ga., called Babyland General. They are dolls. Each fabric-and-polyester infant is a "soft sculpture," handmade by one of 125 employees of Entrepreneur Xavier Roberts, 24, a former artist. In just two years, Babyland has "delivered" 50,000 babies at prices of $125 to $200 each, which Roberts insists on calling adoption fees. "You don't buy them, you adopt them," said one middle-aged Miami woman, pressing a fat baby...