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Carter plans to work at fund raising for a library and public affairs institute associated with Emory University in Atlanta. This fall he will give some time to teaching at Emory. Looking pleased with himself, he unfolded the architect's drawings of the institute and stretched them open on his desk. The project stimulates his greatest personal hopes for the future; he spoke with real feeling of how he would hold seminars on such issues as human rights, the environment and arms reduction, and how he hoped to attract world leaders to his forums. For months, his wife remembered...
...Jacobi) does malicious impersonations of Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself at a filmed rally and mouths the Führer's words. He was both the big star and his biggest fan. And Speer (Rutger Hauer)-the young architect who became "the nearest thing Hitler has to a friend" and ran Germany's war machine while Hitler lay quivering inside the bunker of his psychosis-played both a featured role and the ideal, attentive audience. It was not until his imprisonment for war crimes that Speer became Nazism...
Defense Minister Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 54, is the undisputed architect of Israel's bombing raids into central Lebanon last week. If he is not the most powerful man in Israel today, he is second only to Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Sharon covets Begin's job. "Arik would sacrifice everything, and I mean everything, to get the Prime Minister's post," says an Israeli general. Begin had misgivings about awarding the powerful Defense portfolio to Sharon, who had a reputation for disobeying superiors on the battlefield. Begin, who held the Defense post himself for more than a year...
...architectural engineering, Gustave Eiffel's 1,010-ft. tower. Except for the first Ferris wheel, the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 did not really advance structural engineering. But it was a dream of what the American city might be. Designed under the direction of Architect Daniel Burnham and Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who also created New York's Central Park, it helped inspire the monumental heart of Washington, D.C., as well as public buildings from coast to coast...