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Before Bobby got around to arguing against the county unit system, he undertook the pleasant task of presenting Senator Teddy for admission to the bar of the Supreme Court. Finally he got down to business. Clad in the customary morning coat and striped pants, he addressed the Justices: "May it please the Court . . ." At first he seemed nervous, even while reading from the brief prepared for him by Solicitor General Archibald Cox and Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall. But as he went on he gained confidence, delivered a firm, finger-jabbing appeal, answered a few gentle questions from the Justices...
...story office building for IBM in Seattle, faced with slender, concrete-clad steel ribs that support the structure and give the building a delicate, almost at tenuated upward sweep. The arched colonnade at the bottom daringly omits corner columns. The Outsider. A few years ago. when his income had begun to swell, Yamasaki started looking for a larger house for his family, in either Birmingham or Grosse Pointe. But he soon found that even though he is one of Detroit's most famous citizens, he is also a Nisei and therefore still partly an outsider. His real estate broker...
...that the building should be a gateway between the city and the campus, a sort of open glass gallery lined with conference rooms on each side. He chose concrete folded slabs with triangular ends to provide a dramatic "silhouette against the sky." He set glass walls behind slender, marble-clad steel columns with ornamental sunshades and grilles to provide "texture." For "surprise," he provided a triangular-patterned skylight over the two-story-high central gallery, and for "delight" an el-shaped pool outside with islands of white gravel. When the building opened in 1958, there was a ceremony at which...
...twelve women and 14 children clad in tattered sheepskin coats and babushkas were a forlorn lot with a forlorn tale. They came from a sect of Protestant Pentecostal evangelists in the Siberian town of Chernogorsk, near the Mongolian border 2,100 miles to the east. Of late, local authorities there had taken away several children of the sect, and threatened to imprison the adult faithful. With the vague notion that a foreign embassy might help them, the Siberians went by train to Moscow. Now they wanted to travel to "Israel"-probably meaning the Israel of the Old Testament...
...Buffalo, where the Charter House Motel serves a salad dressing to his taste. He wears $265 suits, brings his own hot dogs to baseball games, and snoots the common man. "Can it seriously be argued," he asked, after observing the deportment of a hockey crowd, "that these ignorant, ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligans-common men all-are the equals of the civilized products of Groton?" All this, Frazier hopes, qualifies him as something of a snob. It is a badge he wears proudly, like the Legion of Honor...