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...city that in five years has integrated its libraries, public buses, golf courses and taxicabs, with department- and variety-store lunch counters to follow school integration. Negro pressure triggered these changes, just as two Negro students entering the University of Georgia last winter helped to topple the entire fac,ade of Georgia's once rigid state segregation laws. But equally important was the graceful acceptance of the inevitable by white Georgians. Their turnabout must be accounted a milestone in the history of the U.S. South...
...policeman on guard assured Curator Jacqueline Martial-Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three floors just to be sure. But two or three hours later, the thieves somehow climbed up the lighted, ornate façade of the museum,*sneaked through a small window on the second floor, spirited away six canvases from one gallery and two from another while Mme. Martial-Salme and her husband slept a few yards away. Wailed the show's organizer. Leo Marchutz, next day: "Cezanne would be furious...
Beneath the façade of order, the Dominican Republic left by Trujillo is a political vacuum, and its economy is near collapse. As he grew older, Trujillo embarked on grandiose projects of no merit, lost $35 million on an international fair that flopped in 1956, drained away another $50 million for arms in the space of two years. Trujillo compounded his growing troubles by a foolish and abortive plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt in Caracas last June. As a result, Trujillo was ostracized by all the other nations of the hemisphere...
...lived in it, but to architects it was a milestone; it became the model for countless other slabs before and since the U N Building. In all his work, Corbu had lifted his prisms on high to reclaim the land underneath. His columned structures had freed the façade for inventive sculpturing, opened up interiors, surrendered the long dark walls to light. And as a grace note, he had added the roof garden. These devices, which he imperiously declared to be the basis of a "fundamentally new esthetic," seem simple in retrospect-but then, so does the arch...
Seeing the new façade, most architects and others who were critical of the change tend to accept it peaceably. The new marble, plus the creamy paint on the dome, undoubtedly are an improvement over the flaked-sandstone look. And the forward shift of the front is so comparatively slight that visitors hardly note a significant change in the relationship of dome and wall...