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...University should not be pacified by the MDC's intention of eventually lighting up the entire riverbank. More spotlights could easily be attached to the existing poles, while it will take some time for the MDC to erect new poles on both sides of the river. And if none of the new poles are closer to the bridge than the ones constructed last week, the MDC's plan will do little to make the Weeks Bridge any safer...
...Woodmen firm, which had considered leaving Omaha before Sorensen took over, then decided to erect on the old City Hall site a new $20 million building that, at 28 stories, will be Omaha's highest. A savings and loan association followed with a decision to put up a 15-story building. Both companies cited "a changed climate in the mayor's office" as a major factor in their decisions to put up the largest downtown offices built in the city since the 1920s. Sorensen also attacked discrimination in Omaha (10% of the population is Negro) more determinedly than...
...million, 670-ft.-high dam and a generating plant at Mountain Sheep, in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. The court unanimously rejected the challenge of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which wanted to erect a comparable dam at Mountain Sheep...
...forget about the other people here." Slowly, with the help of men like Snowden, the Eskimos developed the tools they needed: self-assurance, a sense of achievement, pride. "We built this hall to last forever!" said Willi Imudlik of the substantial wooden meeting place that he helped to erect. "Whose store is this?" asked a visitor to the co-op trading post in Whale Cove. "Uvaguk!" shouted everyone in it proudly. "Ours...
When he strides onto a concert stage today, there is not a virtuoso living who can match his communion with the audience. "I love it like a woman," he says. His bearing becomes regal, his face is masked in concentration. His back erect, he kneads his fingers, bows his head for a moment's thought, and then eases into the keyboard. In driving home a run of climactic chords, he rises higher and higher off the piano bench as though he were intent on physically overwhelming the music. In more lyrical moods, his arms and hands move with a kind...