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JAMAICA RAILROAD STATION in Queens in New York City is a depressing place to read a newspaper. Not surprising, really: railroad stations are, as a rule, depressing places in which to read, what with all that railroad-regulation decaying Georgian brick and the stale urine smell drifting from the tunnels where the winos sleep, and the annoying fat bookies who stand next to you in the crush and elbow you in the lower back every time you try to turn off the sports page. But Jamaica Station is special...
That footloose style has brought Califano some bad moments at the White House. When Jody Powell, the President's press secretary, first heard of Califano's antismoking crusade, sure to anger the tobacco-growing states, the Georgian exploded: "That son of a bitch! We told him not to do that." Califano denies he ever got such instructions and says he discussed his plan with the President. And despite the predictably strong reaction, especially in North Carolina, Carter reassured the Secretary: "You're on the right track." Indeed, Carter has consistently supported his embattled Cabinet officer...
...amidst 450 acres of sweeping lawns and arching elms, Andover brims with history. Paul Revere engraved its seal; John Hancock signed its charter; George Washington addressed the school in 1789 (on horseback). English classes meet in a cupolaed schoolhouse designed by Charles Bulfinch in 1819; red brick Georgian-style buildings, many built through the beneficence of a Morgan partner in the 1920s, grace the campus...
America's contribution to the language of modern architecture has been immense. But little sign of that could be seen in its capital, Washington. Where were the modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center...
...toothy official portrait of Jimmy Carter. Standard decoration for thousands of Washington offices-but the budget boss's picture is different; on it the President has written: "To my good and early friend Jim Mclntyre." That inscription tells the secret of Mclntyre's success. A small-town Georgian like his boss and so many other now prominent Washingtonians, Mclntyre met Carter in 1970, when the President was a defeated Georgia politician trying again for state office. Last week Mclntyre, 37, a quiet lawyer turned figure technician, got the job most recently filled by a far more flamboyant Georgian...