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Rising high in the center stands a bronze fountain, girdled beneath by the 22-ft.-long Scroll of Isaiah; the fountain sends a jet of water through an opening in the dome to baptize the exterior tile. Says Kiesler: "It is a purification, just as the Dead Sea sect purified themselves in water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor...
...University of Chicago's Dr. M. Edward Davis, can delay the onset of such changes and diminish their impact. There is even a test-an adaptation of the familiar "Pap smear" for detecting uterine cancer-that indicates how much medication a woman might need. "Estrogens are not the fountain of youth," added Brooklyn's Dr. Henry S. Acken Jr., "but they may be the springs that feed the fountain...
Pepsi has shown lots of sparkle in the 17 months it has been bossed by Kendall, a onetime fountain-syrup salesman. Last spring he introduced Diet Pepsi, which has since captured more than one-quarter of the low-calorie-cola market. He also bought a West Virginia firm that makes Mountain Dew, sugar-rich citrus soda whose slogan is "It tickles yore innards." Mountain Dew sales are up 150% since September...
...Claverly basement is by no means an adequate location for a radio station," Newman said yesterday. "Our main announcing studio is a converted squash court and our workshop is the remains of a swimming pool, complete with a lion's head fountain," he added...
Nivola's playground has been open long enough to gauge its success. Grownups are negative. A neighborhood priest deplores the possibility of a child tumbling off a fountain. A nearby housewife thinks it may all be obscene. A local clergyman says frankly: "This art escapes me." The kids? They all seem to love it. "Swings are for babies," says one seven-year-old lad. "I'm not a baby any more...