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Whatever the game is, the U.S. is willing to indulge the bearded dictator for the time being. Miami's Cuban Refugee Emergency Center has already passed out 70,000 forms to exiles who hope to get relatives off the island. Such figures bring groans from Miami civic officials, who already have their hands full trying to assimilate 100,000 of the 300,000 exiles living in the U.S. But there is no choice. As one housewife confided in Camarioca: "I'm afraid of the boat ride, but I'll leave...
...Francisco march proceeded from Golden Gate Park to San Francisco's Civic Center Sunday without incident...
Architects today have to design whole systems of buildings all at once, from civic centers to new cities. This calls for complex planning of functional interactions, social effects, and visual variety. Architecture schools which used to spawn endless distortions of Salisbury Cathedral and the Parthenon are now desparately seeking a more rigorous approach to urban design...
...Carter's ability to delegate authority has not only made him a successful retailer but enabled him, at 54, to spread his personal enterprises into dozens of cultural and civic departments. Besides keeping watch on the important things at Broadway-Hale, Carter is involved in activities that range from the Los Angeles County Art Museum (president) to the University of California's board of regents (chairman...
...city hall completed, but the finished building has remained remarkably true to his original concept. Rising up from Toronto's mixture of old and new buildings, it has taken the shape of two curved towers (27 and 20 floors, respectively) that, like gigantic hands, cup the central civic plaza. There, standing like a champagne glass on a single stem, is the low city-council chamber and mayor's office. Beneath the complex is a four-level parking garage with space for 2,400 cars. Setting the center off from its drab surroundings is a plaza with fountains...