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...Atlanta, the steel skeletons of San Diego's new skyscrapers stretch above the immaculate white city that curves back from the Pacific toward the Laguna Mountains. The yacht basins are crowded with boats; sumptuous motels for sybaritic tourists are rising outside town. But beneath the clamor and the glitter, San Diego-the city that brashly bet heavily on the aircraft industry and cleaned up for nearly 15 years-is in missile-age trouble...
...that is only half the story. In the informal, easygoing atmosphere of the Kennedy Administration, the elfish, ebullient Powers, 49, plays a unique role as John Kennedy's constant companion, morale builder, tension lifter and joke teller. One reason for his value is that even amid the glitter of the nation's capital, he still remains a son of Charlestown. Says Dave casually: "It's the best White House I've ever worked...
...great race to the cities began after World War II, when foreign investment set off a small-scale industrial boom in Latin America. But the penniless, often illiterate, peasant soon finds the city glitter an artificial light. He may get a better-paying job, or he may not; un employment and underemployment are widespread. Even if he does, he rarely finds a decent place to live. Housing is short, and landlords greedy. He usually throws together his own shack in some squatter's field...
...glad you can appreciate him. I'd much rather have Sardar." Where Jackie had thrilled to the beauty of India's Taj Mahal, built three centuries ago by the Mogul emperor, Shah Jahan, as a memorial to his wife, in Pakistan she was excited by the glitter of the 80-acre Shalimar Gardens, built by the same ruler as a memorial to his father. There she strolled along a red-carpeted walk beside glistening pools, while balloons floated about her, fountains shimmered and 7,000 guests looked on. "All my life I've dreamed of coming...
...workshops of Rome came a shower of rings, earrings, necklaces, brooches, buckles and tiny busts. When the capital of the empire moved to Constantinople, its jewelry became garish and showy; and when the barbarians swept away the glory that was Rome, taste made its final surrender to superficial glitter. In the 1,000 objects in the Milan show, vanity and art started out as allies, ended as enemies. But rarely has the jeweler's hand produced objects of such intimate charm as it did when the alliance was in full flower...