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...Chicago, where the skyscraper was born and raised, they try to greet new buildings with an open mind, if not always with open arms. But confronted with a civic structure that looks a bit like a celestial sports arena, Chicagoans have vacated the middle ground and formed vehemently opposing camps. John Zukowsky, curator of architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago, thinks "it has the potential to be the next 'image' of Chicago." Heaven forbid, says Architect Harry Weese. "Tinselly and decadent," he growls. "The building will be an oddity, like the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood." People are choosing...
...Daley Center, a Miesian steel high-rise completed in 1965. They also charge that it is too frivolous for a government office. Although its inverted-bowl silhouette evokes the traditional rotunda, Jahn has transcended the two styles that dress most government structures: neoclassicism, with its air of judicious civic doings, and modernism, with its sober grids that speak of rectitude and rationality...
...help groups. Instead of quarreling with Administration plans to cut the budgets of programs aimed at helping the poor, the council suggested reforms, including tax incentives for development of poor neighborhoods and a shift from government- supervised foster-care programs for abandoned children to those of black churches and civic groups. "We didn't ask for special programs for blacks," said Woodson. "That's patronizing." As for the absence of N.A.A.C.P. and National Urban League leaders from the meeting, Woodson contended, "Other groups say that all of our problems started with Ronald Reagan. They just recite the same old litany...
...100th anniversary of its founding this year in Philadelphia. It was founded, in fact, on Sept. 17, 1884, right there in Philadelphia. To mark the occasion, the AKC put together the largest dog show ever held in North America. It brought more than 8,000 dogs to the Philadelphia Civic Center. Security was tighter than a rusted nut. Tighter than it had been a month before during the vice-presidential debate in the same spot, according to a visitor who attended both...
Despite the official U.S. neutrality, Blaize benefited from outside help. A variety of private Caribbean, West European and U.S. organizations, including the AFL-CIO and a number of conservative public-interest lobbies, funneled money into Grenada to heighten civic awareness and get out the vote. Local taxi drivers were paid as much as $130 on election day for carrying citizens to the polls. The assistance was nonpartisan, but the enlarged turnout probably helped Blaize to defeat the remnants of Gairy's Boss Tweed-style political machine...