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DIED. Albert Speer, 76, Adolf Hitler's master builder, a brilliant architect who, as Minister of Armaments and War Production, was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in London. Starting in 1934, Speer built Nazi Party headquarters in Munich and the chancellery in Berlin and orchestrated Hitler's spectacular mass rallies at the stadium in Nuremberg. For his use of slave labor as head of war production from 1942 to 1945, he was sentenced in 1946 to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials...
...stocks of companies involved in the battered housing industry, which has suffered from soaring mortgage costs, also fell sharply. The shares of Georgia Pacific, a leading lumber producer, dropped 7.1%, to 22⅞, while Ryan Homes Inc., a Pittsburgh home builder, dropped 5.2%, to 18¼. U.S. Home Corp. slumped two points...
...vote in the June elections, got five of the 22 portfolios in the new Cabinet. But Begin's most important appointment was his selection of General Ariel Sharon as his new Defense Minister. Sharon, who served as Agriculture Minister in the last government and was a zealous builder of new Jewish settlements in the occupied territories, has wanted the defense post ever since Ezer Weizman resigned last year. Instead, Begin kept the portfolio himself, quipping that if the aggressive Sharon were to become Defense Minister, he might "surround the Prime Minister's office with tanks." This time Begin...
Robert Caro, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for a critical investigative biography of Moses, The Power Broker, calls him quite simply the greatest builder in American history. Says Urban Scholar Lewis Mumford, perhaps the most persistent critic of the immensity and impersonality of typical Moses projects: "In the 20th century, the influence of Robert Moses on the cities of America was greater than that of any other person." Like Frederick Law Olmsted, the 19th century landscape architect who built Manhattan's Central Park, Moses believed in the democratizing effect of recreation. His goal was not simply...
...Moses moved to Manhattan with his family as a child. He was educated at Yale, Oxford and Columbia, and entered New York City government in 1914 to test his theories about civil service reform. Hired by Governor Al Smith in 1918 to reorganize state government, he began as a builder in 1924, when Smith asked him to head two state park commissions. He parlayed those jobs into a dozen quasi-public posts, held simultaneously. The only time Moses ran for office, as Republican nominee for Governor in 1934, he lost by a record 800,000 votes. But within...