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...lack of specifics, both sides pronounced themselves satisfied with the summit, and Reagan and Gorbachev toasted peace, their staffs and each other farewell with a glass of champagne. Before heading off to brief the heads of the Soviets' East bloc satellites, assembled in Prague, Gorbachev managed to get in a few parting propaganda points at an unusual 1˝-hour press conference. He sternly warned that "all restraint will be blown to the winds" in nuclear competition unless the U.S. pulls back from its antimissile defense efforts...
Jahn embraces the technology of high-rise modernism, but he loves to fold glass curtain walls into more or less old-fashioned building shapes, monumental moderne. His recent designs are plainly derivative of skyscrapers from the Golden Age. The Television City office tower, for instance, is a nice-looking relative of the General Electric building in New York City (1931) and the Tribune Tower in Chicago (1925); the three slabs just south of the 150-story spire are like slightly squished Empire States. How come? No reason in particular. "These are not meant to be 'New York buildings,'" says Jahn...
...outsiders, it seemed like an election glimpsed through Alice's looking glass. Everybody knew that the candidate with the most votes would not necessarily win. Indeed, President-elect José Azcona Hoyo last week set about forming a new government only after he had lost to Candidate Rafael Leonardo Callejas, 42, by more than 200,000 votes. The reason for the topsy-turvy outcome: a decision by a government election commission to award the presidency to the leading candidate of the party that received the most votes in overall balloting for national and municipal offices. Although the Honduran constitution requires...
Much of the evidence behind Petuch's hypothesis has been available to scientists for decades. As early as the 1940s, geologists noticed an extensive network of fractures that radiates outward in the layers of limestone beneath the Everglades like cracks around a bullet hole in a pane of shatterproof glass. Maps published by the Florida Bureau of Geology in 1974 show a pit-like dip in the area's underground geological contours. Magnetic readings in the Everglades suggest the presence of a subterranean mass of metallic ore that could conceivably be the remains of an asteroid. Finally, scientific journals have...
...Loop, was still a prairie. The main street, then called Grand Boulevard, became a popular carriage route. It is still lined with great stone houses--most now disused or broken up into grimy cubicles--characterized by bow fronts, Greek columns, turreted towers, bay windows with pilasters, and beveled-glass fanlights. "The potential is so wonderful," a social worker remarks, driving down the boulevard, now called Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. She is talking about the architecture. The splendid ostentation of these buildings makes their present inhabitants look somehow unfeathered...