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Crosby was for many years a member of Cypress Point, which was designed by Alister Mackenzie, the same architect who mapped out Augusta National. Situated on a spit of land at the base of the Santa Lucia foothills and pounded by the Pacific on all sides, Cypress Point is perhaps the most breathtaking course ever built. O.B. Keeler, the biographer of Bobby Jones, wrote that the Monterey cypress that line the fairways appeared to him as "the crystallization of the dream of an artist who had been drinking gin and sobering up on absinthe...
Diane McGuire, landscape architect for the Department of Buildings and Grounds said yesterday the renovation will "make the paths where the students walk more functional." She added, "the existing paths were too narrow and going in the wrong directions...
...Spence, assistant dean of the College and the architect of the new process, designed the new system to eliminate some of the faults many found in the old one. Last year, the transfer process was a never-ending battle: students plagued Marshall with weekly questions about their status, lobbied her with calls from alumni parents, and waited anxiously for the phone call that signaled their exodus. Some students had to move during reading period or in the midst of finals...
...contrasts with his relatively modest background. Son of a railroad auditor, he practiced law back home in St. Louis for 15 years before moving to Washington and becoming one of President Harry Truman's most intimate advisers-on law, politics and foreign policy. Clifford was a principal architect of the Point Four program, which provided economic aid to undeveloped countries, the Truman Doctrine, which helped keep Greece from falling to the Communists, and of the modern Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency. He also advised John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson on foreign policy, but refused to join the Cabinet...
...Wiesenthal learned that Mengele had settled in Argentina and alerted the Israelis and West Germans. The West Germans requested Mengele's extradition, but the Argentines refused. Dispensing with legal niceties, the Israelis planned to kidnap him at the same time that they seized SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. But the doctor got away. Under questioning in Israel, Eichmann admitted that he had received money from Mengele, whose family is wealthy...