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...meantime. Gilmore sat in his solitary cell, guarded round the clock, answering a foot-high pile of fan mail. "His mind hasn't changed," said his uncle, Damico. "I think Gary will get what he wants." And it still appeared that all Gary wanted was to finish up his last meal and face a firing squad. He was not without supporters: a Harris poll reported last week that 71% of the country believed that after the nation's decade-long moratorium on capital punishment, Gilmore should be executed...
...Hammond, Ind., the vanguard of 1,000 bus volunteers check in. Soon 230 blue-and-white First Baptist Church buses are plying routes across northern Indiana and South Side Chicago, and before the morning is over the drivers will have hauled as many as 10,000 persons to what foot-high signs on the sides of the buses hail as the WORLD'S LARGEST SUNDAY SCHOOL...
Architect I.M. Pei set to work scaling down the project and last week released a new design which eliminated an 85-foot-high glass pyramid and two 350-seat auditoriums. Pei also redesigned the complex in brick, to blend in with the colonial motifs of the Harvard Houses which are across from the site...
When the Library Corporation announced earlier this month that the monumental 85-foot-high glass pyramid would be replaced by a lower-slung brick museum, community groups attacked the move as a "cosmetic" change. They said the alteration in the museum was designed only to save money without cutting down the square footage--or the scale--of the museum itself. In addition, critics claimed architect I.M. Pei's separation of the library complex into two buildings was a small concession to professors who did not want tourists tramping down their ivy-covered hallways...
...design under preparation by architect I.M. Pei will omit an 85-foot-high glass pyramid, eliminate two 350-seat auditoriums and place the John F. Kennedy School of Government in its own building on the 12-acre site...