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...Architect Pierre L'Enfant proposed a monument to the U.S. Navy when he designed the nation's capital in 1791, but not until last week, on the Navy's 212th anniversary, was a memorial to the service finally dedicated. The 100- ft.-diameter circular plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue "enshrines, in stone and metal, the gratitude of a nation," Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told a crowd of 6,000 Navy veterans and other spectators...
...Renowned architect Philip Johnson '27, the creator of dozens of contemporary buildings, was in Boston yesterday to laud the city at his latest achievement, the International Place near South Station...
Since Salinas is the architect of those measures, his selection pleased foreign creditors (including U.S. bankers, who hold $25 billion in outstanding loans to Mexico). Many of the country's workers were far less enthusiastic, blaming Salinas for the economic belt tightening. Fidel Velazquez, 87, the venerable dean of the 4.5 million-member Confederation of Mexican Workers, pointedly walked out on Salinas' hourlong acceptance speech. Asked why he had left, Velazquez responded testily, "Because I felt like...
Meanwhile, the Harvard Committee In Charge of These Kinds Of Silly Decisions voted unanimously to offer $20 million to the first company that could figure out a way to cover Memorial Hall with scaffolding. After many plans were considered, the contract was finally offered to a brilliant architect and former pauper best known for his most recent triumph--enclosing the John Harvard Statue with wooden planks...
...launched his campaign against Roh. To a poster-waving crowd of 3,000 supporters at a hotel in downtown Seoul, former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, 61, indicated that he too would seek the presidency, as the nominee of a party he would form later this month. A chief architect of the 1961 coup that brought Park Chung Hee to power, Kim Jong Pil is generally credited with forging economic policies that helped make Park's 18-year regime the crucible of a remarkable burst of development. The ex-Prime Minister said he was running in order to "take...