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...Dulles International Airport, due to open near Washington, D.C. in 1961, is radically different in concept. Unlike most airports, it will have no passageways reaching out onto the apron to detract from its lofty, templelike terminal designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. Instead of jets coming up to terminal fingers, passengers will simply walk into giant "mobile lounges" that will move them out to the jets...
...stars were fading and streaks of rose were brightening the eastern horizon as a chartered Learstar, just in from New York, taxied onto an apron at Washington's National Airport. Rumpled and heavy-lidded, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon stepped forth uncertainly, clinging to the doorframe with one hand as he felt for the step with a wavering foot. He had put in a long night's work...
...newly extended apron stage (designed to achieve neo-Elizabethan intimacy), see a forgettable version of Two Gentlemen from Verona mounted on a revolving stage, a tricked-up Twelfth Night, and a fine Taming of the Shrew, starring Peggy Ashcroft. ¶ Ontario's Stratford, a 1953 offshoot of England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist...
Among the best: Dallas' 450-seat Kalita Humphreys Theater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which has a turntable stage flanked by two side stages, a unique lighting system, superstereophonic acoustics; Palm Beach's 813-seat Royal Poinciana Playhouse, whose stage apron curves out to provide more acting area, or, in the case of a musical, slides back to open an orchestra pit; Hollywood's 1,024-seat Huntington Hartford Theater, lavishly decorated with relief sculpture; Phoenix' 523-seat Sombrero Playhouse, which includes clubrooms and an art gallery...
Action. Every Saturday since, she has slogged into villages without schools, called the people together on a cow's horn, exhorted them to help her build a 100-student school so their children will be "good for something." Then, in wide-brimmed white hat and apron, outworking her helpers, she hacks out a foundation, cuts timber, makes cement blocks, installs plumbing. In between, she keeps the children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then...