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Other incidents have led to protests and legal actions against AEC. In 1959. Massachusetts residents, through town meetings and petitions to Washington, persuaded AEC to discontinue ocean dumpings off Cape Cod. The Long Island town of Islip last month rescinded the permit of a company that planned to erect a fenced and windowless waste-storage building in the town's new industrial park. And New Britain. Conn., for almost five years has been waging a court fight to block construction of a storage yard...
...Central's tracks, and the air space above Union Station is being measured for a $150 million development that will include three 20-story office buildings. The building boom is furthering the architectural confusion along Michigan Avenue. Last week the Equitable Life Assurance Society announced that it will erect a modern 35-story structure on an avenue site bought from the Chicago Tribune...
With his stony expression, his dark glasses and dark civilian suits, the erect little man who flew into Washington last week sometimes looked like a bad 'un out of a foreign-intrigue movie. But Chung Hee Park, 44, the South Korean leader who normally wears the olive drab uniform of a four-star general, had little reason to smile, and he was keeping his military trappings out of sight for good purpose. His trip was aimed at winning Administration support for the military dictatorship he set up in South Korea last May with the avowed goal of rooting...
...small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished study; charged with protest against war and against Franco, Gonzalez shows the Montserrat broken, reduced to her knees, her mouth twisted in an agonized scream...
...mind, as Author Waller suggests, millions of others shared Haupt-mann's guilt. "They," he had told his wife when it happened, "have stolen our baby." To Lindbergh, "they" meant the clamoring public, seeking to haul down the wall of privacy that he sought desperately to erect about his family life...