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Duke should easily clobber Oregon State in the consolation match tonight, but Cincinnati versus Loyola should be a helluva game. The almost flawless Bearcats are favored, but look for Loyola to pull an upset. Nobody thought the Ramblers could demolish Duke as thoroughly as they did last night, but the Blue Devils simply could not cope with the Chicagoans' lightning offense. Although Cincinnati has the best defense in the country, the same thing may happen tonight...
Cecil A. Roberts, director of the Planning Office, said yesterday that Mem Hall was not officially considered "expendable," and that there were no present plans to demolish it. He said the idea of a pedestrian mall had come from Cambridge and not the University...
Just off the Rue Pigalle in Paris, men with picks, shovels and wrecking equipment are preparing to demolish a tiny, 230-seat theater that has just folded after 65 bloodcurdling years. It is the Grand Guignol. Although its name had percolated down to the bedrock of dramatic criticism in half a dozen languages, most people thought the theater itself had vanished long since. Now they are right. The last clotted eyeball has plopped onto the stage. The last entrail has been pulled like an earthworm from a conscious victim. The Grand Guignol is closed forever...
When Richard Nixon assaulted the reporters last week, his cries brought down around him the walls he had been building for sixteen years. So thoroughly did he demolish his castle that ABC Television News--which, after all, is now run by James Haggerty--could title its post-election study of the former Vice-President, former Senator, former everything, "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon...
...preserve its landmarks. Last week, in the hope that publicity might save the day, 500 architects (the most notable: Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph) banded together with the newly formed Action Group for Better Architecture in New York and marched on Penn Station with signs that said: "Don't Demolish It! Polish...