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...Liberty Island. The pitch seemed both unusually feverish and collaborative one bright, windy afternoon last week. There is no pushing back this Friday's deadline. Up in the statue's crown, a Mexican worker--an immigrant!--put finishing touches on new interior copper sheathing, while Project Architect John Robbins of the Park Service complimented the man on his finesse at riveting an eccentric, angular piece of metal...
...honorary members included Dyson, university chaplain Larry M. Hill, University Health Services physician Loring Conant, renowned-architect Gordan Gund, William D. Von Edges John J. Slocum, Professor of English and Folklore Joseph C. Harris, Master of Cabot House Myra Mayman, Frances Fergusson, Jeanne Leonard Wasserman '36, Judith Wilson Rogers '61, and Beverly Helbling Wood...
...strip seems complete, a pair of books renews the scholarly pursuit. Philip Langdon's Orange Roofs, Golden Arches (Knopf; $30) is an exhaustive social history of chain restaurants. Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture (Chronicle Books; $12.95) is a more polemical and quirky work. Author Alan Hess, a California architect, takes as his nostalgic prototype a Sunset Boulevard snack shop built in 1949 and zigzags through a hot-rod-and-chili-dog architectural tour that celebrates old McDonald's outlets, car washes and Las Vegas casinos--all the pushy, flimsy '50s buildings that Hess calls "agitprop for the commercial future...
...credibility of the military by retiring more than half the country's 103 generals and placing new commanders in all four of the armed services. But here too the government is divided. Aquino's 26-member Cabinet includes both military hard-liners like Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, the architect of martial law during the Marcos regime, and human rights activists who wish to investigate alleged army offenses. The rift between the civilian and the military factions has been seized upon by the Communists as yet another reason not to accept Aquino's invitation to disarm. "How can she secure...
Jhabvala, 59, knows more about the challenges of living and writing in India than she ever meant to learn. Born in Germany of Polish parents and educated in England, she married a visiting Indian architect and went home with him in 1951. Except for this accident of the heart, she writes, "I don't think I would ever have come here for I am not attracted--or used not to be attracted --to the things that usually bring people to India." She was not, in short, a do-gooder, a foreign-service careerist or a spiritual pilgrim. But her European...