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...much in attendance at the preliminaries were members of the so-called Class of'88, the party leaders who hope to win command in the post-Reagan era. A heavy schedule of howdying was blocked out for Vice President George Bush. Congressman Jack Kemp was one of the chief draftsmen of the platform's economic planks, including its stand against a tax increase in the near future. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Kansas Senator Robert Dole were honing their prime-time speeches, as was Dole's wife Elizabeth, the Secretary of Transportation. "We're trying to coordinate them," quipped...
HABS is the brainchild of Philadelphia Architect Charles E. Peterson, 77. In 1933, Peterson suggested it to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, partly as a way to provide jobs for unemployed architects, draftsmen and photographers. Ickes immediately accepted the proposal, and in two weeks' time 1,200 such professionals were hired for six months under the auspices of the New Deal's Civil Works Administration...
...Arab position. If el-Baz agreed to something, the other Egyptian aides would go along, and I could always override him, if necessary, by going directly to Sadat. At the same time, I could depend on Barak to influence Begin. Both Barak and el-Baz were brilliant draftsmen, fluent in English, and they understood the nuances of the difficult phrases with which we had to work. Vance stayed with me during these long sessions, and the four of us made painstaking but steady progress on the main document...
Overseeing the execution of this mind-stretching enterprise in Jubail are some 1,600 Bechtel architects, civil and mechanical engineers, draftsmen and project managers. Not only must they supervise the performance of 274 prime contractors and more than 500 smaller contractors for everything from kitchen cabinets to multimegawatt electric generators, but they also must manage a multilingual work force of 41,000 laborers from 39 countries...
Cooper, who works for C. Edward Ware & Associates, with headquarters in Rockville, Ill., is fairly typical of the roughly 1,500 to 2,000 church architects practicing in the U.S. today. Ware employs 25 architects and draftsmen and designs about 20 churches a year, three times as many as five years ago. "Our clients are excited about the challenge of building a church and attracting more people," says Cooper. "Nowadays, congregations want to participate actively in the liturgy-to sing more, to move more, to celebrate. They don't want spaces that confine them merely to listening...