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When the unknown is operating on a historic scale, it conjures up apocalyptic projections. Dick Elkus, an advisory-board member of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, predicted, "What has happened so far is a 6.0 earthquake on its way to becoming an 8.3 -- 900 times greater." The Harriman Institute's Richard Ericson said, "We are facing what is perhaps the largest man-made disaster the world has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Union: Starting at Year Zero | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...addition, the alumni association arranges a number of opportunities for students to meet with GSD graduates in forums, tours of local projects--like Boston's Copley Place, designed by a team under Howard Elkus, who took a master's in architecture from the school in 1963--and in "yield parties" around the country, where alumni meet with applicants who have been accepted to the school and encourage them to choose...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: On Academics: Students, Architects Express Ambivalence | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...review committee's greatest concern, however, was to have this huge project serve both the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods and to make it an integral part of the city. The designers, the Architects Collaborative, Inc., with Howard F. Elkus as the principal in charge, somewhat-but, alas, far from entirely-overcame the joyless-fortress syndrome. The composition of the building masses is pleasing. It starts low at the Copley Square side, nicely mending the turnpike damage done there, and steps up to the scale of the Prudential building on the other side. The saving graces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Shaped by Bostonian Civility | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Flicka has said that she will take off the season of 1978-79, a lucrative period at this stage in her career. She plans to spend more time with her husband of three years, Peter Elkus, a baritone who is just getting his own career going. She wants to have children and do more lieder singing, where, she says, "you paint everything with your voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Von Stade: Forget the Magic | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...Katharine E. White, 57, onetime mayor of Red Bank, N.J., chairman of the New Jersey Highway Authority, daughter of the late Abram I. Elkus, Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to Turkey. Job: ambassador. In his rush to get all the appointments sorted out in time for the announcement, Johnson did not get around to selecting a country to which Ambassador-Designate White will go. But he plans to notify her the minute one turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Ladies' Day | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

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