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Arlington was originally part of a 1,100-acre estate that John Parke Custis, Martha Washington's son, purchased in 1778. His son, George Washington Parke Custis, built Arlington House (now a yellowing museum in the midst of the cemetery), modeled after a Greek temple, on a plateau overlooking the Potomac River. The estate was inherited by Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Custis' daughter, and was the Lee home until Cavalry Colonel Lee resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and went off to Richmond on April 22, 1861 to take his place as a general officer...
...population." Deprived of their Stalin prizes, the architects were accused of building "utterly unjustified tower superstructures, decorative colonnades and porticoes . . . as a result of which, state resources have been overspent to an amount with which more than one million square meters of living floor space could have been built." Singled out for special mention: Moscow Architect Alexander V. Vlasov, who "not only failed to conduct a proper struggle against this extravagance, but [was] guilty of superfluities in designs he drew...
Just 35 miles from Casablanca sits the spanking new $23 million base of Boulhaut, built for the U.S. Air Force. Finished five months ahead of schedule, it is the last of four Strategic Air Command bases built by the U.S. in Morocco since. 1951, and is complete to housing, code rooms, radar, cold-storage plant, glass-walled servicemen's club and movie theater. Last week, after six months, Boulhaut had yet to see the first plane touch down on its 10,000-foot runway, and the total base personnel was one Air Force captain, one master sergeant...
...nation's economists reckon that immigrant labor has played a major part in boosting the generation of electricity by 81% in seven years, the production of black coal by 36%. To take the strain off the country's housing industry, which in the past three years has built enough homes to house 900,000 people, thousands of prefab houses have been imported. In a booming economy that has shown only slight signs of recession, there is only one other serious shortage: labor. There are some 60,000 jobs waiting for new immigrants...
...Once the Negev is developed and a railway built to Elath," said the Egyptian newspaper A Sareeh, "Israel will be able enormously to expand her trade with the Far East, and our boycott will become nothing but ink on paper." The hope of restoring Egypt's land link with Jordan and the Moslem East will vanish...