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Baxter was the architect of the two settlements. A T & T in recent weeks became firmly convinced that it had little hope of winning its case against the Gov ernment. A few days before Christmas the company officially told a Justice Department lawyer that divestiture might be the best available alternative. There then followed, as negotiations picked up speed, at least 13 separate draft proposals for a settlement. At the same time, Baxter was concluding his review of voluminous material concerning the IBM case and had decided that he would drop the Government's action against the company. When...
...from earlier eras. One carefully repaired mosaic depicts Minerva deep in thought, accompanied by the state symbol: a grizzly bear. That symbolic partnership of classical restraint and belligerent frontier exuberance not only characterizes the intent of the capitol's original builders, but speaks for the restoration itself. Says Architect Raymond Girvigian, the project's chief historian, "History provides the binding force that welds people together. This, now, is a functional building that people can walk through like a work of art. How much more of a bang for your buck...
Moshe Dayan, 66, soldier-statesman who was an architect of Israel's military victories in 1956 and 1967 and also, while Foreign Minister from 1977 to 1979, of the Camp David accords that led to peace with Egypt. As Defense Minister in 1973, he was accused of leaving Israel vulnerable to surprise attack in the October War. Always something of a maverick, Dayan, who lost an eye fighting the Vichy French in Syria in 1941, became a passionate advocate of coexistence between Jew and Arab...
Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's architect and builder of monuments to the Third Reich who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, used slave labor to keep the German war machine running. The only Nazi leader to admit his guilt at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, he served 20 years before his release...
DIED. Wallace Harrison, 86, New York architect who played a major role in planning such urban complexes as the United Nations headquarters, Rockefeller Center and Lincoln Center; in New York City. Harrison was celebrated for his skills at organizing disparate groups of architects to work on grand municipal projects. Rockefeller Center is considered a prime, innovative example of modern design, but Lincoln Center and the Empire State Plaza in Albany have been widely criticized as banal and pompous. Harrison's bold, romantic impulses can best be seen in works like the Trylon and the Perisphere, which symbolized the confident...