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...public service since the early 1930s and serve as L.B.J.'s study after his presidency, had its first showing, in model form, last week in a presentation presided over by W. W. Heath, chairman of the board of regents. It turned out to be a ten-gallon colossus. The complex was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Gordon Bunshaft, who also did Yale's rare-book library. Situated on a 19-acre extension of the university, the $10,750,000 project (to be paid for by Texas' oil-rich land-grant endowment fund) is actually...
...oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...
Gringo Grumbles. Mexico's motives are not altogether selfless. It would like to boost exports and build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply...
...indulgences- and this is perhaps the strongest single measure of the council's achievements. The essentials of Catholic dogma stand, of course, as does Rome's claim of universality. What has changed drastically is atmosphere and attitudes. "Before, the church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on a hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change," says the English Benedictine abbot, Dom Christopher Butler. "Now it has become a people on the march - or at least a people which is packing its bags for a pilgrimage...
...screen. But last week the word at ABC was money-lots of it. After a year of dickering, the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1964 sales: $1.5 billion) agreed to acquire ABC in a move that, if it goes through as expected, will produce a new electronics-entertainment colossus. The combination would outrank Radio Corp. of America (1964 sales: $1.8 billion) and its NBC subsidiary, leave CBS as the only major network without a big corporate shelter...