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...suppose the choice was a little unorthodox. After all, some of the others were much better known. All those we considered are fine architects. But Pei! He loves things to be beautiful.... We felt that Pei's best work, as John Kennedy's was in 1960, is yet to come." Ieoh Ming Pei was a modest, low-key 48-year-old architect when Jacqueline Kennedy gave that short speech in December of 1964. A Chinese-born American architect, schooled at MIT and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Pei had been the surprise winner in the world-wide architectural talent...
...decade has passed since Pei began working on the Library, but for many reasons the architect's work has hardly progressed past this press conference dialogue which Pei engaged in soon after receiving the Kennedy endorsement...
Still, the 10-year Kennedy quagmire has not kept Pei from progress on other fronts, from doing what he is supposed to do best: making cities a better place to live in. The prolific architect and his staff of 110 have won wide acclaim for creating or renovating buildings in almost every large American city, including his heavily-decorated Kipps Bay Plaza and Bedford-Stuveysant Superblock in New York and his Society Hill Towers in Philadelphia...
...original structure came to be known as the Tombs because its architect used a pharaoh's tomb as his model. The present building, completed in 1941, was designed to hold 932 inmates. In 1970 there were 2,000. Now, with a population of only 530, conditions remain so appalling that the New York board of corrections began hearings last week to decide the gothic jail's fate. The most likely verdict now appears to be to destroy the Tombs. Its passing will not be mourned...
...immigration. He is the youngest Premier-designate; almost the age of the state of Israel itself (26 years) separates him from 76-year-old Mrs. Meir. He is also the first nonpolitician to hold the job. He made his reputation first as armed forces Chief of Staff and the architect of Israel's smashing six-day victory over the Arabs in the 1967 war, then as Israeli ambassador to Washington from...