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...world's largest clock told the time. In the huge, marbled lobbies of South America's tallest and finest railway station, loudspeakers poured out sambas. But the Government-operated Central do Brasil's new Dom Pedro II Station in Rio was incomplete behind its majestic façade. Train sheds had still to be roofed. At rush hour 150,000 commuters and fellow travelers jammed narrow platforms, were squirted on & off trains like toothpaste. The grandeur of Dom Pedro II Station could not mask the rickety state of Brazil's railways...
...starkly simple building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...
...Antwerp got royal permission to expropriate it. Since then, Antwerp's crack architects had thumbed 17th Century documents to rediscover the original plans, masons cut through walls in search of the original foundations, and 23 stonecarvers-using Renaissance techniques-worked seven years to restore the first friezes and façades. The war was no interruption: they worked right through the occupation, and when Hitler's rocket bombs were blanketing the port they used bricks from blasted buildings to make the restored parts look less new. No bomb ever...
...Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo Fa-Fa...
Recollection of a Past. That afternoon Churchill was in Williamsburg, the colonial town which John D. Rockefeller Jr. has carefully restored, even to the colonial façade on the A. & P. store. It proved a dangerous expedition back into the historical past. He and Eisenhower had climbed into an 18th-Century coach when the horses, frightened by the photographers' flash bulbs, suddenly plunged and reared. Women screamed. Negro drivers grabbed at the reins. Eisenhower solicitously grasped Churchill's arm. Churchill, outwardly unmoved, puffed on his cigar, occasionally doffed his hat and gave his V-sign...