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...Concord Building, where the paint peels off the inside walls and rickety wooden stairways lead to doors that go nowhere, curves around the apex of Harvard Square at Mass Ave and Boylston Street. It's three stories high, and the bottom story holds stores and restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space...
Truman was a common man who became the nation's Chief Executive-like Ford, by accident-at an uncommon time. The early postwar years marked the apex of America's political influence and prestige. Communism was a cold war threat, but the Soviet Union lagged far, far behind America as a military power. In short, no U.S. President before Truman or after him had such capacity to shape the course of history...
...name suggests, the look is fashioned around the triangle, with its base at the shoulders and its apex at the waist. The triangular theme is emphasized by the skillful use of angular seams-accented in some models by piping and also reflected in the lapels and jacket points, even in the buttons. The trousers, in contrasting or complementary colors if the customer wishes, can be flared at the cuff. The double-or single-vented jacket, with its absence of external pockets and flaps, gives the wearer a slim, dashing look that would certainly be approved by Bond but never...
...strike probably marked the apex of Harvard's crisis, but for me and my family it was just beginning. That summer, while the family was visiting relatives in Los Angeles, President Pusey flew there for an odd and dramatic meeting with my father. On a park bench, with a nearby jack-hammer eliminating the possibility of an eavesdropper, Pusey asked him to become Dean of the College...
...ller's inflatable house is indeed unique; it has 210 square meters of floor space, the ceiling rises nearly 16 ft. at its apex, and the entire structure is held up by a constant flow of air pumped through a plastic umbilical cord by a small electric motor outside. Shadows from trees and clouds dance across the walls and roof, changing shape as the afternoon sun dips toward the horizon. When Müller tires of the shifting shadows, he projects pictures of mountains, oceans and forests on the walls. In warm weather he pipes water to the roof...