Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America. Its prospects had seldom seemed more promising than when Belaúnde took over the presidency in 1963. He plunged into his tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
...Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss, trimmed with a four-foot cascade of jellied industrial grease, pipes and wire, and giant pieces of felt. "I have no idea what it will look like," he said, resting on his shovel while the work was in progress...
Armed with house painter's brushes and paints (he could afford no better), he labored with endless preliminary sketches and interminable revisions to build a series of carefully thought out, tense compositions. They were, of course, meant to look as though they had been stroked impetuously on the canvas in a matter of minutes. Said he: "The final test of a painting is: Does the painter's emotion come across?" To be sure that his did, he left his painting surfaces an intricate jumble of spatters, strokes and corrections...
...great Chapultepec Park and an undistinguished, slightly seedy neighborhood. Instead, its brick-bearing walls rise just five stories high, and the 750 rooms all look inward over landscaped patios with gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times as much as a low one and taken twice as long to build. We wanted the Camino Real ready in time for the Olympics...
Nixon favors tax incentives to bestir private enterprise to build ghetto factories and housing, to train the hardcore unemployed, to promote "black capitalism" and to reduce air and water pollution. As possibilities for budget cuts or stretch-outs, he has cited public works, the supersonic transport, the post-Apollo space program and federal highway construction. With the war's end, part of the fiscal savings should be used to replace the draft with a volunteer, paid "professional" Army. On other issues, Nixon and Humphrey split somewhat less sharply, but keep the economic argument alive. Items...