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...capital lost its way after World War - II. Shortsighted planners with paper-thin budgets did compound the devastation of the Blitz. The glories of John Nash's Regency terraces, Inigo Jones' Banqueting House, John Soane's Bank of England and Wren's churches were juxtaposed with discordantly cheap, gray cement-and-glass office boxes and grim "purpose-built" public housing that sprouted in craters left by German V-bombs. Squares and courtyards were bulldozed flat. Planners who felt that London was too dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose...
...adults who as children liked Rubber Cement...
...WASN'T exactly like a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, although a lot of the cement was painted gold to resemble Jerusalem stone. And there were nightly crucifixions...
Even so, the two Bakers had to argue further on Thursday to cement Reagan's agreement to state in his press conference that night that he would put everything on the table in budget discussions with congressional leaders. But as the President began speaking, advisers who had coached him were concerned that he would take back that pledge almost immediately after making it. Their fear was that once Reagan got past his prepared statement and started answering reporters' questions, he would go on automatic pilot and repeat all his standard denunciations of taxes. In fact, Reagan once or twice started...
Restic, too, looked ahead, to days when the only rout(e) will be made of cement and tar and will have signposts pointing to Brown, Holy Cross and Yale...