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...vast fortress-like building on Pennsylvania Avenue has been criticized as an architectural disaster and a shocking waste of public funds ($126 million). Now the name, cast in bronze, begins to be something of an embarrassment in a democratic capital: the J. Edgar Hoover Building...
...when the military started relying entirely on volunteers to flesh out its ranks--and he had to amble on down to the fringes of Central Square to register for the draft. He remembers City Hall, where the draft cards were issued, as a tabular and turreted brick fortress with rows of arched windows through which he got a sidewise view of neon wriggles in the shopping district...
...Freedoms. In the past, Damascus' uncertain rulers carried on their domestic and international politicking from behind the battlements of a "fortress Syria" that was often hostile to non-Arabs. One of Assad's major achievements has been to open up his country to outsiders as it has not been in 20 years. Moreover, he now feels secure enough in his power to grant new freedoms to his 7.3 million people even while preserving the essential socialist character of the country...
...with all his devices in it," claims Miguel Angel Caballero, the company's director. "The only thing we haven't managed yet is to make one that will fly." For about $7,000, P.A.Y.S. will transform any regular production-model Argentine car into a rolling fortress, with sufficient armor to withstand small-arms fire and yet maneuverable enough to speed away from a kidnap attempt...
...company's two-story frame factory in 1917, the shy, University of Washington-trained engineer became Boeing's president in 1933 and served as chairman from 1939 until 1966. Determined to create a "superweapon of the air," he spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on Europe alone. Its sister ship, the larger, more powerful B29, which entered the war in 1944, delivered 96% of all the bombs...