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...thick brick building with slit-like windows was so designed because of lack of space and money, Babcock explained. "But like all good designs, it turned out to be very expensive--about $1.5 million. We made a lot of changes. The TV studio wasn't in the original plans. We had to raise the said his life is intertwined with ceiling two feet for that. WGBH will pull their truck right in here," gesturing at the dusty courtyard, "until Harvard starts its own station in the fall. Before long the whole University will be interconnected by television...
Walce Up. The result was the formation of a sorely needed Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City-otherwise known as the C.C.C. movement, Cindy's Culture Crusade. Cindy & Co. agreed that the best way to get the show on the road was not to wage a "brick-and-mortar fund drive" but "to do something great with people." For its first effort, the foundation daringly chose to present the U.S. premiere of Handel's 241-year-old opera, Julius Caesar, a convoluted tale of love and intrigue in old Egypt, embellished with a floridly beautiful score...
...subway next at Dudley Street or Eggleston to see the Washington Park project. This is partial clearance and rehabilitation in Roxbury, a streetcar suburb of frame houses and brick apartments of 1880 to 1930. Here are things to look for today...
...Blight. First stop, an hour out of Washington, was "Dumfries wayside shelter," an undistinguished oasis on Interstate 95 with two picnic tables and a red-brick colonial toilet. "Virginia highways are the cleanest and least cluttered in the nation," boasted Virginia's Governor Albertis Harrison Jr. as Lady Bird dedicated the site, first roadside rest area to be financed under the interstate expressway program...
...Tired of the financial squeeze after his sophomore year, Lyndon brashly applied for a teaching job in the obscure town of Cotulla, between San Antonio and Laredo. He was named principal of a new red brick Mexican-American school, charged at the age of 20 with directing five teachers, and paid what he now terms "the magnificent, munificent salary of $125 a month." Yet those nine months in a county where the Mexican kids lived in waterless, crumbling shacks and the median education of Mexican adults is still a mere 1.4 years proved the most rewarding of Lyndon...