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...election eve in New Hampshire, the big white clock in the cupola of Dover's city hall glowed down on the wintry town, and the resinous vapors of a torchlight parade gave a tang to the crisp night air. The kilted Granite State Highlanders tootled The Blue Bells of Scotland on their bagpipes, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Democratic U.S. Senator from neighboring Massachusetts, marched behind them through the streets of Dover. In the city hall, 1,000 people waited to see Candidate Kennedy and to hear his last word in the first primary campaign of 1960. "Beginning tomorrow...
...basement are two radioisotope storage wells. On the roof is a 6-in. telescope, a transparent plastic cupola for cold weather observations, a battery of meteorological gadgets. In between are perhaps the finest science classrooms in any U.S. high school, fitted with electronics laboratory, photographic darkrooms, areas for private student experiments and a specially designed fume hood built to specifications of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Peerless on Earth. For the opera house, Old Master Wright designed "a glorification of acoustics, making of it a poetic circumstance." A mighty crescent rises out of lagoons to the apex of the combined opera house and civic auditorium. Beneath the auditorium is a planetarium; on top, a crenelated cupola housing "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp." Close by, soars a towering TV antenna in the form of Mohammed's sword. For his more mundane second commission, a central post office building, Wright sunk the main floor 11 ft. into the earth to get away from the heat, screened...
Love and the law: those are the story's opposed forces, and much of their contention centers around Brocton's old courthouse, its pillared cupola flanked by great trees, its tolling tower bell pacing life in the town. In the gallery of lawyers serving beneath the bell, the outstanding figure is Noah Tuttle, Winner's senior partner, a doughty old lion of the law in his white-maned 80s, crotchety, plainspoken, a portable archive of torts, statutes and the cumulative wisdom...
Most spectacular part of the book is a collection of 248 color photographs (see following pages) showing the world at worship in its almost infinite variety-under spire and cupola, in unadorned home and amid Renaissance splendor, with plain, quiet face and behind garish ceremonial mask. Along with essays on the fundamentals of the six faiths, the book presents samplings of their scriptures. Standout among the articles: the introductory essay on "How Mankind Worships" by the late Dr. Paul Hutchinson. longtime (1947-55) editor of the Christian Century. Though an uncompromising enemy of the syncretistic idea that what mankind needs...