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...Overseers informally approved the plans last Monday, and Bok finally released photographs of architect Hugh Stubbins's model of the library...
Robert Cicchetti, chief architect for Kanavos, said last night that Kanavos already holds a building permit for the property. If the request for zoning changes is denied, Kanavos will proceed with construction of an 18-story inn, which would require no zoning changes, he said...
...detailed account of Nixon's first-term proposal for a guaranteed family income. The president's Family Assistance Plan (FAP) was a failure, but it was a curious failure and Moynihan's reportage and analysis is helpful in deciphering the long story. Moynihan was the FAP's chief architect and he tells its history as only an intimate expert can, yet his personal stake in the plan gives him an obvious bias in its favor. His familiarity with government is an asset in writing the book. But his ties to this particular proposal seem detrimental. His snideness in describing opponents...
Farms will be mixed with factories and homes to provide what Neil Pinney, MXC's chief architect-planner, calls "a rural-urban balance" throughout the city. Nowhere in MXC will there be skyscrapers ("Psychologically alienating," says Pinney, who used to work with Los Angeles City Planner William Pereira). In their place will be "megastructures" complete with their own housing units, streets and transit systems...
Moving to the Senate in 1948, Johnson gradually became the master of cloakroom intrigues, of late-night telephone calls and of political favors given and received-the master, in short, of the Senate itself. As Senate majority leader for six years, Johnson was the architect and deliverer of such Eisenhower legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The 1,000 days of the Kennedy Administration were days of frustration for Vice President Johnson, who had been nominated primarily to balance the ticket and win Southern votes, and from that penumbra...