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Eames
U.S. designers. Born in St. Louis, Charles was trained as an architect; Ray (born Ray Kaiser), a native of Sacramento, studied painting with H. Hofmann (1933-39). After marrying in 1941, they moved to California, where they designed movie sets and researched the uses of plywood for furniture. In 1946 an exhibit of their furniture designs at the Museum of Modern Art resulted in the mass production of their molded plywood chairs by the Herman Miller Furniture Co., and their furniture soon became known for its beauty, comfort, and elegance. After 1955 they made educational films, notably Powers of Ten (1969). They worked as design consultants to major U.S. corporations, incl. IBM.
Engels
German Socialist philosopher. Son of a factory owner, he eventually became a successful businessman himself, never allowing his communist principles and criticism of capitalist ways to interfere with the profitable operations of his firm. As a young man he developed an interest in the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel as expounded by the Young Hegelians, and he became persuaded that the logical consequence of Hegelianism and dialectic was communism. In 1844 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England. With K. Marx, whom he met in Cologne, he formed a permanent partnership to promote the socialist movement. After persuading the second Communist Congress to adopt their views, the two men were authorized to draft the Communist Manifesto (1848). After Marx's death (1883), Engels served as the foremost authority on Marx and Marxism. Aside from his own books, he completed volumes 2 and 3 of Das Kapital on the basis of Marx's uncompleted manuscripts and rough notes.
Evers
U.S. black civil-rights activist. Born in Decatur, Miss., he served in World War II and entered business in Mississippi. He organized local affiliates of the NAACP and in 1954 became its first field secretary in Mississippi. He traveled throughout the state recruiting members and organizing economic boycotts. In June 1963, hours after a speech on civil rights by Pres. J. Kennedy, Evers was shot and killed in an ambush outside his home. A white segregationist was charged but set free after two trials in 1964 resulted in hung juries; he was finally convicted after a third trial in 1994. Evers's widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, later headed the NAACP (1995-98).
Paterson
City (pop., 1996 est.: 150,000), NE New Jersey. It is located on the Passaic River, north of Newark, N.J. It was founded in 1791 as an industrial settlement by advocates of U.S. industrial independence from Europe. The successful enterprise, begun by A. Hamilton, was known as the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. In the 19th cent. it was a center of cotton textile production, the silk industry, and locomotive manufacturing. It received a city charter in 1851 and was the scene of many labor disputes. By the 20th cent. its industries were widely ...
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