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...said that.") But Pasquarelli insists that because they had sunk their own money in the project and stood to gain only if the apartments sold, they won the confidence of their developer partner Brown. They were able to convince him that if they took the design in any novel directions???which they would do?those wouldn't be the kind that turn off potential buyers. "The developer started to trust us," says Pasquarelli. "It allowed us the creative freedom to build a building like that...
...complete integration of the Berkeley public schools. Begun voluntarily, the plan has met little community opposition, was completed in 1968, and still has the unanimous backing of the school board. It involves large-scale busing, including the transfer of 3,800 elementary pupils of both races and in both directions???some from affluent hillside homes into ghetto areas in the coastal flatland. The busing costs $270,000 a year, involves an average ride of 20 minutes each...
...creative skill which used to show in the suave touches which Lubitsch put into his comedies comes out here in other directions???a shot of marching feet for which the camera was placed just behind a one-legged soldier; doorbells ringing in the Falsburg shops as the shopkeepers come out to watch a Frenchman going down the street; a gravedigger telling the German boy's fiancee (Nancy Carroll) that a Frenchman stopped to speak to him and gave...
...city of Chicago is flat. Around it the country is flat as it stretches away in all directions???except to the East, where there is fresh water. On this surrounding prairie, there lies a town called Clearing. Here on a piece of open ground, workmen have been busy laying a great amount of twelve-inch water-mains. They are the most curious water-mains that have ever been laid. There are 72,000 linear feet of them, connected with seven tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost...
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