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...American public school was hailed for teaching citizenship and common sense to rich and poor, immigrant and native-born children, and for giving them a common democratic experience. "The public school was the true melting pot," William O. Douglas once wrote, "and the public school teacher was the leading architect of the new America that was being fashioned...
Californians this week vote on Proposition 9, the proposal to halve the state's personal income tax. Its chief sponsor is Howard Jarvis, the pugnacious architect of the 1978 Proposition 13, which cut property taxes by an average of 56% and set off a series of tax reductions around the country. Though its passage is by no means assured, Proposition 9 is another bold thrust in California's tax revolution. Since 1978, the state has indexed personal tax rates to inflation, put a lid on budget increases and abolished the business inventory tax. Moreover, Governor Jerry Brown...
Besides gaining a new dean, the Design School is also acquiring a new chairman of the Architecture Department, the post the McCue is vacating. Henry N. Cobb '46, a founding partner in the New York firm of I.M. Pei & Partners and chief architect of Boston's John Hancock Tower, will assume the post in July with the intention of establishing new courses in the GSD in revitalizing buildings. "Older buildings embody certain cultural values; they are a statement about our past that should enrich our lives," Cobb says, adding, "We don't have to destroy our past to prepare...
...grow, and so he later moved to a larger church with a bigger parking lot costing $3 million. But still did his ministry prosper, faster yet in 1970 when the pastor began his nationwide Hour of Power on TV. "We were turning people away," he cried. So Architect Philip Johnson has built him a Crystal Cathedral of gleaming glass for $16 million, with seats for 3,000 and 90-ft.-high doors that swing open to reveal the preacher to pilgrims in autos. Says Schuller of his edifice: "Finally we have a church where the heavens can do their thing...
...craggy man of charming mien and Old World manners. He has never married and lives in the house he designed for himself years ago at the edge of El Pedregal. Characteristically it presents a nearly blank wal to the street. For Barragán is above all an architect of seclusion of serenity in a noisy world. Says he: "Art is made by the alone for the alone...