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...under automatic control: reducing valves change pressures as heating demands vary, thermostats operate other valves to keep steam flow (and, consequently, water temperatures) at desired levels. The temperature of radiator water is also adjusted automatically according to how cold it is outside: when the air in the Lowell House courtyard is a crisp thirty degrees, for example, the water circulating through House radiators is kept...
From here on, the route was well-marked. Signs on exit doors to the surface let the explorer know what building he is passing under. The Tunnel goes directly beneath the Lowell House courtyard to Mill Street where it turns sharply east and runs for a short distance between Leverett House (McKinlock Hall) and Quincy House. At DeWolfe Street there is a turn to the south which brings the Tunnel to Memorial Drive and a large junction room know as the "Parkway Header." Like the Widener Chamber, the Parkway Header is a nexus of three Tunnel branches...
...Pieta, of course; the gigantic scale model of New York City; and the Federal Pavilion that stresses some of the glittering aspects of American development such as immigration, urban blight, and the integration struggle. The United States also plans to offer productions of Shakespeare, ballets and concerts in its courtyard, as well as symposiums given by Noble prize-winners inside. In addition, the city's Museum of Science, if ever completed, promises an intriguing, permanent exhibition...
...selling about 250,000 a year. After a competition between the Ford, the Lincoln-Mercury, and the corporate styling studios, Iacocca looked at all three together and picked out a Ford Division model that somehow seemed to pop out at him: "It was the only one in the courtyard that seemed to be moving." He won complete agreement on the spot from Henry Ford, who had been skeptical about the new car in its very early stages but came around after several sessions of eloquent argument by Iacocca. Ford appropriated $50 million to tool up the Mustang...
...letter sent last month to all the officers, directors, and stockholders of the Coop, he complained that their plans provide for "no set-back, no variety, no courtyard, no trees," "Mistakes built into concrete and brick are irrevocably fixed for generations," he observed...