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Lofty Unconcern. Some of the impracticality of this august airport lounge is due to Mies' staff, who with the fervor of acolytes refused to "compromise" an inch on the maestro's plans. Hence the stiff lighting, the patchy services (such as an elevator too small for large-scale paintings) and, worst of all, the absence of any walls to hang pictures on. Three sides of the hall are glass; the fourth is an open internal balcony. Placing screen walls to carry paintings will be a headache for curators-especially since the Texas daylight, flooding through that glass acreage...
...Korean Christians have since received the "baptism in the Holy Spirit"-the inner, direct experience of the Holy Spirit's blessing that Pentecostalists regard as a necessary condition for a full spiritual life. Korea's growing Christian fervor is not only Pentecostalist, though...
Columbia set up a Naval ROTC program in 1946, inspired by the recommendation of its president, left-over fervor from World War II, and satisfaction with a wartime on-campus midshipman training program and arrangements for the Navy to use Columbia facilities during...
MUCH NONSENSE has been written in the American press about Salvador Allende and the Chilean revolution. The picture the press has presented--and continues to present with renewed fervor despite the bloody golpe de estado against the Allende government--runs something like this: Chile, a prosperous nation with a long tradition of stable democracy, moved into the vanguard of Latin American progress in the late 1960s under the enlightened leadership of President Eduardo Frei. The popular Frei, who led the Christian Democratic Party, guided Chile well along the road to reform when the Chilean Constitution unfortunately intervened...
Black Markets. For the U.S. consumer, who has an almost emotional attachment to beef, the meat situation was similar to that of World War II-but without the patriotic fervor. Black markets developed as some packers sold sides of beef for whatever price they could get; the usual subterfuge was to sell lower-grade cuts at high-grade prices. Supermarkets adopted a form of rationing, occasionally limiting shoppers to a roast or two each. All across the country, shoppers discovered empty or nearly empty meat trays; in Cleveland, a fight broke out between two women over the last roast...