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...architecture and planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible that many of the most talented and renowned designers in the Aspen tent had once believed...
...Antonio, Texas...
...other fellows are Nina Bernstein '70 of The Milwaukee Journal, Bruce Butterfield of The Providence Journal Bulletin, D'Veta Colin of United Press International, Jane Daugherly of The Miami Herald Nancy Webb Hatton of The Detroit News, Derrick Jackson of Newsday, Jan Jarboe of the San Antonio Express News, Albert Landler of The Great Falls Tribune, M.R Montgomery of The Boston Globe, Wendy Ross of The Washington Post, and Jacqueline Thomas of the Chicago Sun Times...
...Antonio, Reagan spent 45 minutes with a flag-waving crowd of 1,000 people, including some 500 Hispanic Americans; he sipped lemonade, munched on a guacamole taco, and expounded on his economic and Central American policies. In Phoenix, he told some 4,000 enthusiastic members of the National Rifle Association that "we will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family." Throughout the trip, Reagan looked and behaved very much like an undeclared candidate for reelection. As one of his aides put it, "The more we touch constituent bases, the more evident it is that...
...President's San Antonio visit was his second to Texas in seven days. White House aides explained Reagan's continuing interest in the Lone Star State by calling it one of the "big three," meaning that Texas, along with California and Florida, are the three Sunbelt states that Reagan must carry to win in 1984. Hispanic voters are a crucial bloc in all three states; thus Reagan was happy to be in San Antonio to help commemorate Mexico's 1862 defeat of occupying French forces...