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...Yangjialing and a private air-raid shelter. On either side Chu Teh and Chou En-lai each had caves. By now their Red Army had become the Eighth Route Army and was across the Yellow River, fighting Japan. Beneath their hill, by 1942, they had built the yellow brick headquarters of the Central Committee. These three were to remain the power for almost 40 years...
...house without intimidating us with its size. Nor does Prairie School ornament appear in the self-conscious manner in which post-modernists now glue or paint it on their designs. Wright and the Prairie School's precise geometric decorations-the leading on the glass, the pattern of brick and wood panels and curtains, the carvings of wood or stone-all seem organic, as much part of the object as the markings on the wings of a butterfly...
Johns, 32, a convicted rapist, worked by day as a desk clerk in a retirement hotel and as a leader of a young-adults group at his church. By night, he prowled the streets of a middle-class neighborhood of two-story frame and brick houses on the edge of Hollywood. Police believe he may have raped as many as 100 women, ranging in age from 24 to 71, living in a ten-block radius. One of his victims, Sandra Trine, 37, died when she choked on her own vomit during the rape. On Aug. 11, after pleading guilty...
Lowell is a landmark of the historical awareness that HABS has fostered, a symbol that we see our past no longer exclusively in powdered wigs and pewter candlesticks but also in the gritty romance of woof, wharf and smokestack. With its coarse but handsome brick structures bordering on a web of canals, Lowell is a kind of industrial Venice without gondolas. But if its partly abandoned textile mills are to survive, they must be occupied and put to new uses. To promote interest in redevelopment, the HABS team is preparing floor plans and renderings of the most dramatic of Lowell...
...brick Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan's Upper East Side is an example of advanced medical technology. Every year more than 10,000 patients, ranging from infants with leukemia to statesmen with brain tumors, are admitted to this world-renowned research hospital, where they are analyzed, probed and treated by the most sophisticated high-tech equipment available. There are giant X-ray scanners, imaging devices and accelerators for beaming particles on diseased tissues, many operating under computer control...