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...early teens. But Artist John La Farge (who claimed that he diverted Henry James from painting to writing) advised White that his bent was not for art but architecture; more money in it, too, and recognition. Architect White won both, designing such famed monuments as Manhattan's Washington Arch, Madison Square Presbyterian Church, the Century and Metropolitan Clubs, and many of the buildings of New York University. But whenever he had an available moment, in summer trips through the Hudson River Valley and even during his honeymoon in Europe. Stanford White found time to draw...
...began when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to throw schoolchildren into the Negro battle line. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, arch-segregationist, viciously retaliated with club-swinging cops, police dogs and blasts of water from fire hoses. There were no winners in Birmingham last week...
...POLE VAULT. "I'm still doing all kinds of things wrong," complained Brian Sternberg, 19. "I have a tendency to arch back -and that's really bad." But at Philadelphia's Penn Relays, Sternberg arched right over the bar at 16 ft. 5 in.-a new world record. Just three days later, in Monroe, La., Northeast Louisiana State's John Pennel, 22, soared 16 ft. 6¾ in. on his first try. "I figure to clear 17 ft. before I'm through," said Pennel-but he is in no particular hurry...
...Meeting Center-looking like a mammoth radar dish from below and half a grapefruit from above-which will contain a 750-seat auditorium, a 300-seat conference room, plus several smaller conference rooms and exhibit space for state government units. At the south end will be a shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload on two levels below...
Biblicum were skirting heresy. The attack was picked up by the arch-conservative American Ecclesiastical Review, edited by Monsignor Joseph Fenton of Catholic University, which began publishing articles that charged certain U.S. scholars with endangering the faith...