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...overcrowding is due to people who come to gawk rather than fly. Parents park children at airports while they go someplace else to shop. Some airports, to keep kids in hand, have opened amusement arcades, kiddy rides and souvenir shops, which turn many a city's aerial gateway into a carnival. Says one airport executive: "Where you don't hate something to entertain the kids they write all over the walls. You do it as a defensive measure...
Boston has already revitalized much of its wharf area. In St. Louis, preservationists have presented plans to save from urban removal several cast-ironfront buildings north of the Jefferson Memorial Gateway Arch. And in Seattle, a vociferous citizens' group called "Friends of the Market" is winning its fight to resuscitate the flavorful but financially fading Farmer's Market on Puget Sound as an area for art galleries, shops and boutiques...
...constant horror. Christened in 1928 as the "Gateway to the South," it swayed sickeningly to every vagrant breeze - so much so that Point Pleas ant Mayor D. B. Morgan banned its use during parades. Last week, under the bumper-to-bumper weight of cars, gravel trucks, and semitrailers, the "Silver Bridge" collapsed, carrying perhaps as many as 100 people to their deaths in the murky, near-freezing Ohio River waters 80 ft. below...
...Laotian branch is being steadily pounded from the air. That leaves only Cambodia as a relatively bomb-free route into South Viet Nam. This kind of end run is hardly new to the Communists, who have often used Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutral kingdom as a gateway and a sanctuary. But the rising intensity of the war is causing them to use Cambodia more and more as a launching pad and supply depot...
...Moving agrees, points to Eero Saarinen's St. Louis Gateway Arch and the new Picasso in Chicago (TIME, Aug. 25) as evidence of the trend toward monumental sculpture. "We're slowly coming back," Hoving believes, "to sculpture as something to be interested in. It's part of the conversational environment. As more cities solve their problems, they will want to make things look better with sculpture." But if sculpture is going to take its rightful place in the modern cityscape, it will have to acquire for itself the very qualities of scale, materials, tools and technology that...