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Appetite for Everything. All cities with old slum dwellings have a year-round lead poisoning problem. Interior paints used to contain a great deal of the metal; most exterior paints still contain some, but far less than formerly. Crawlers and toddlers in the chew-everything age nibble porch rails and windowsills, chew flakes of old paint or chips of painted plaster and take the lead into their systems, where it is deposited, much like calcium, in the bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that...
...taken, including the purchase of the Waldorf and the takeover of the Statlers. Hilton listens to the board's advice and usually gives in gracefully to strong opposition to his schemes. But when he thinks he is right, he is hard to turn aside. "Behind that pleasant exterior is a hard business mind," says Donald Gordon, president of the Canadian National Railways, which owns the Hilton-operated Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal. "He is not belligerent, but he is tenacious...
...building will be smaller than Longfellow Hall across the street. It will have a brick, not concrete, exterior, to blend in with the "historic" architecture of the area...
When University Hall was first erected, a large and ungainly portico was constructed across the front, apparently Harvard's addition to Bulfinch's original plan, but this was later removed and the exterior elevations seem to be now as the architect intended. Gone also is "University Minor," a row of out houses which stood behind the main structure for many years...
Since World War II, the integral parts of Le Corbusier design have consisted of pillar foundations, glass walls, sun breaks, roof terraces, and schemes free from orthodox, exterior influences. The Visual Arts Center unites all of these basic factors...