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...L.B.J. library is monumental, with gently curved slabs bracing set-back façades that look a little like a drive-in movie's screen. The interior will be a vast, uncolumned hall enclosing a freestanding glass-enclosed bookstack faced with red-leather-bound presidential papers. The podium beneath it houses a 250-seat lecture hall and a 1,000-seat auditorium equipped with permanent TV installations, the necessity for which Johnson observed when he held a crushed press conference at the Truman library a year...
Realizing that a glass faÇade would only allow the polyglot architecture of Madison Avenue to intrude, Breuer walled off his neighbors with concrete blinders and nearly solid walls. Controlled ventilation and artificial light may make windows obsolete, but lack of them has the drawback of inducing claustrophobia. To allow "visual contact with the outside," he added seven trapezoidal windows, including the largest on the front facade, which acts as both a signature and a beacon...
...carry 700 passengers. Last week 162 Chinese landed in Hong Kong from Indonesia, many of them setting foot on the mainland of Asia for the first time in their lives. Like all new arrivals, they had about them an air of ineffable hope and naiveté. Said Hsiao Hsing-fa, 38, and headed for a new life in Red-ruled Canton: "I am not worried by what I read of the Red Guards, and look forward to a bright future in China...
Though agreeing that something must be done, Stewart's critics-an odd grouping of architects, journalists and Congressmen-contend that an extension would destroy the west front's unique architectural beauty. They want the crumbling façade restored, point out that damaged walls have been successfully repaired in such far older buildings as London's St. Paul's Cathedral and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. They also resent the fact that Stewart is an engineer rather than an architect and ridicule the "Mussolini Modern" aspect of the huge-and hugely expensive-Rayburn House Office Building...
...officially cool reception. After the bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil depots, the Russians stood the Americans up at a scheduled Soviet-American track meet in Los Angeles; when U.S. swimmers came to Moscow, Pravda reported the meet without mentioning them. Last month American Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fa-tha") Hines's sextet, on an official tour of Russia, found its bookings in Moscow and Leningrad suddenly canceled, was detoured by its government hosts to a string of Off-Broadway stands in the Black Sea area...