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...labor bill by 26? an hour last month; steel prices advanced soon after by $4.50 per ton at a time when many experts argued strongly for price cuts to stimulate the nation's economic recovery. Money-losing railroads were obliged to hike hourly wages by 12? last November, pile on 4? more in April, now are slated for a third 7? jump this November. Meanwhile, they fall deeper into the red, though both passenger and freight rates are going...
...love, but it is certainly more than one of those quick-cooling TV infatuations, one of those flirtations that wither in weeks, leaving only an old pile of fan letters and musty ratings. The fact is that Paar is less a comedian than a personality-and personalities usually outlast comedians...
...Pouch. As soon as news of the fire reached London, the Royal Ballet's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn sent her own Black Swan costume winging to Ballet Theatre's Prima Ballerina Nora Kaye. Covent Garden set 15 girls apressing a pile of old Sylphides costumes. The British Festival Ballet's Anton Dolin, a Ballet Theatre alumnus, sent whatever odds and ends he could spare. Ballet Theatre's Erik Bruhn phoned fellow Danes in Copenhagen, who rushed to pack Sylphides and Graduation Ball trappings (the vacationing director had to be run to ground for an O.K.). French...
...know that primitive man conceived in images, that his images were ideas; that he ascribed words to these ideas. And now, in this technological century, the word has grown further from the idea, until they have separated, and the word is all. The shattered images lie in a pile, along with utopia and dreams...
These thrusts stung Missouri-born Bill Blakley, who heaped his pile from nothing to an estimated $200 million (he once drew a $5,000,000 check) in Texas banking, oil, insurance and ranching. In the classic bob-and-weave, Blakley both deprecated his riches and boasted of them; after all, he said, his parents were poor and he was "earning a man's wage" at 14. Then he uncoiled some flickering jabs...