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TRINITY CHURCH (Copley Square). Sunday evening service with Brahms Requiem. George Faxon, choirmaster. Free. Sunday, November...
...Life Insurance Co.'s $95 million headquarters in Boston may be the most famous new building in the U.S.-and all because of its window pains. The 60-story tower is supposed to be sheathed with 10,344 windows of a double-paned insulating glass that reflect the Copley Square surroundings. Trouble is, about 3,500 of those windows have cracked, and some of them have even fallen off the building, delaying occupancy for months...
...windows, which cost $700 each, have been falling out since they were installed in the summer of 1972, reportedly due to high winds and settling in Copley Square's soft ground...
Until then the browsers and shoppers in Copley Square can gaze on the craftsmanship of Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church, dnagle their feet in the fountain beside the church, or stroll through the new wind of the Boston Public Library...
...they had best not gaze up the 60 stories of the Hancock Building unless they prepare themselves for an aesthetic shock. For hovering above Copley Square--one of Boston's most pleasant sections--is the unfinished checkered Hancock monolith...