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...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...
...born in China and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. The architect received his master's degree from Harvard and served as an assistant professor at the School of Design from 1945-1948 before founding the New York City architectural firm of Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners. Harvard granted him an honorary degree at commencement ceremonies...
...joined the architectural firm of Webb andKnapp in 1948, and has run his own firm, now Pei,Cobb, Freed and Partners, since 1955. He was awheelwright fellow at Harvard...
...glad for the merger," says Barbara Fitch Cobb '70. "I always felt out in left field being in the Radcliffe dorms. They were overcrowded. Usually, two of us were in what was intended to be a single. Harvard houses seemed to have much more space--the suites were bigger...
...Harvard dorms were much more interesting than Radcliffe's," Cobb adds. "The Radcliffe tutors seemed to be more interested in enforcing parietals than in stimulating an intellectual environment...