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...major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument to St. Louis as Gateway to the West. A seven-block pedestrian mall shaded by trees and flanked by lawns is abuilding. Ground has been broken for a 1,100-car parking garage, first step in construction of a downtown sports stadium, designed by Edward Stone, that will seat 50,000, cost $89 million...
When such finishing touches as a red marble floor are installed, the two-story interior patio will open to the public this fall, serving as a skylit forecourt to the new Thomas J. Watson art library and a gateway to the Renaissance galleries. To enhance the outdoorsy effect, Met Director James Rorimer promises that the thermostats will be set a few degrees below the rest of the museum...
Chink in the Curtain. Most maps do not even show Kasane, in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland. But to hundreds of thousands of blacks suffering under the indignities of South African apartheid, the scruffy riverside village is the gateway to Elysium. For Kasane leads to Freedom Alley, a tiny, 50-yd. stretch of border between friendly Bechuanaland and Northern Rhodesia that refugees from South and South West Africa may cross in safety. Even so, only a rifle shot west of this chink in the apartheid curtain, menacing reed banks mask the end of the Caprivi Strip, a narrow...
...centuries, the Great St. Bernard Pass was the most popular gateway through the Alpine rampart separating southern and northern Europe. Up its tortuous trails from the Rhone valley climbed tumultuous hordes of Gauls and Germans to sweep down on Italy. And this way, says legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar...
...French West Indies were not al ways so serene. Discovered by Columbus in 1493, they proved a strategic gateway to the Caribbean, provoking a bloody succession of wars between the Spanish, English, Dutch and French. Though France finally won the precious necklace of islands in 1815, it was not until 1946 that the colonies became fullfledged departments of metropolitan France. Since then Paris has pumped in funds for new schools, roads, hospitals and public buildings. But while the islands' few small industries-sugar, bananas, pineapple and rum-expanded rapidly, wages stayed low and employment failed to keep pace with...