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...Doral Hotel, guarded like a fortress by Secret Servicemen last month, was McGovern headquarters in July. For the presence of the White House staff in August--not the President, the Vice President, nor their families--Doral guests and employees were required to wear identification badges at all times, even when sunning beside the hotel's private pool. For Bob Haideman and Herb Klein and Clark MacGregor, paper shredders were installed at the Doral, and the hotel lobby was closed to conventioneers. It was the same lobby where in July, anyone could come and go, anyone could hitch a ride...
LIKE an army repeatedly assaulting an impregnable fortress, the Dow Jones industrial average last week mounted yet another attack on the magic 1,000 mark, and once more retreated. After opening the week by pushing to a 44-month high of 974, the index fell back to close at 966. Such performances have become almost routine, and a different specific cause can be found for each failure to crack 1,000. But one underlying reason is that Wall Street misses the massed investment firepower that mutual funds once brought to bear on the market. Throughout the 1960s, mutual funds, which...
...disastrous flood of 1966, it became a storehouse for damaged books from Florence's national library. But a problem remained: how to integrate this masterpiece of obsolete military building with the tourist life of the city below? The answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere...
Under the searching Tuscan sunlight, the dialogue between the vast, worn stones of the fortress and Moore's luminously translucent Seravezza marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form. To see his largest piece, the 18-foot high, 170-ton Square Form with Cut, 1969-70, against Brunelleschi's apricot-colored dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is to realize how completely Moore has conquered the problems of architectonic scale, and how little the basic forms that satisfy...
...largest cell block in the world, now houses only a few dozen sparrows. The prison's clothing factory has shut down, and so has the mattress plant. San Quentin today contains only 1,500 convicts, as compared with 6,000 ten years ago; by 1975 the century-old fortress will be closed forever...