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...Some two months ago the steeple of the red-brick Hobbs Street Church of Christ in Athens, Ala. (pop. 14,000), was sliced in two by a bolt of lightning. This may have been prophetic, for now the Hobbs Street congregation is split just as surely, and all because of a bathing suit. The one-piece white swimsuit was worn by nubile blonde Becky Marshall, 17, as she won a Fourth-of-July beauty contest to name "Miss Spirit of America." Trouble was, Becky's father, Charles Marshall, was the minister of the Hobbs Street church. Aghast, the elders...
When he reached his white brick house in suburban Bethesda, Md., he found that his wife Barbara had coolly organized a gathering. "I have a long skirt on and the dog has a bow," she said determinedly. "We are going to have a party tonight." She passed cheese and crackers while the Senator circulated with small talk among 65 friends and neighbors who stopped by. He also warned his staff to avoid any sniping at McGovern. Said he: "I am not critical of anything in this experience in the past week...
Kaufman's latest tower, now being completed on Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan, corrects this supposed error. As architecture, it is totally undistinguished. But on the street floor, Kaufman's exuberance shines. The sidewalk is a brick path that winds through trees and canopied seating areas, and leads up to the building entrance, a wooden front porch. "It's an event for people," Kaufman says, "a return to the human scale...
...MARTHA BRICK...
There seems to be little choice for students and faculty at Harvard but to become adapted to the Science Center. For if the brick-and-mortar structure of Massachusetts Hall has lasted for 250 years without too much trouble, the concrete-and-epoxy Science Center can be expected to be here long after the comfortable, old buildings of the Yard have turned to dust