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...capital cities of the U.S. took shape for the most part when a public building was something with a cupola and plenty of columns. New York's state capitol is a monument to the architectural style that might be called Ugly American-a granite mishmash of Second Empire, Francis I and Romanesque, with Doric columns, Corinthian columns, tile roofs, slate roofs, dormers, chimneys and rusticated stone work. The city it dominates is appropriately dismal. But last week plans were unveiled that will make Albany, in the words of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, "the most beautiful capital city in the United...
Currently under construction in Djakarta is the Merdeka (Freedom) Mosque, which is to be the world's biggest. The diameter of Merdeka's cupola will be 147 ft., or 40 ft. wider than the cupola of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia. Merdeka will hold 100,000 worshipers, twice the capacity of Lahore's Shah Badi Mosque. Since unbalancing the budget is also something Sukarno does big, part of the mosque's $30 million cost is being raised by more or less forced public subscription...
...Driving through the green, rolling Piedmont country of Taliaferro County, a visitor can go for miles without meeting another car. The county seat of Crawfordville (pop. 786) proudly preserves the house of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, and the white, four-faced clock on the courthouse cupola tolls the hours in perfect time. But even at high noon, Crawfordville has a ghostly air. The stores are empty. The moviehouse closed down years ago. The town dentist and doctor have moved away. This month a towel manufacturer talked of putting new life into Crawfordville by starting a local...
...Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks as easy to clean as the lower Bowery, and Mrs. Kerr moans that a Cunard liner could run back and forth across the Atlantic all winter on the oil it takes to heat the place...
...cradle of iron shorings erected by the British in 1935. Under the crumbling vaulting of the south transept, a scaffold has been put up to protect tourists from falling masonry. The facing of Christ's tomb itself is crumbling; large stones fall from the cornice of the cupola ceiling; leaks abound...