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...Grand Central complex-from the north, a stubby tower with a clock at its architectural nave; from the south, a Beaux Arts Eclectic facade crowned by monumental sculpture that nobody studied but everybody remembered. From either side, it was an ornamental point in the city's stark grid, a recognizable feature amidst its towering but all-too-featureless walls. But five years ago, the 59-story Pan Am Building was built just south of 45th Street, blocking off for all time the vista south from Park Avenue...
...cement their wartime conquest, the Israelis are pouring $1,000,000 a month into Gaza. They have replaced Egypt's currency with Israeli pounds, and completed new power lines linking Gaza city with Israel's main grid. Gaza Arabs have been forced to channel through Israeli, rather than Arab, banks the money sent them from abroad. Gaza's fishermen and its orange and grapefruit growers are getting not only advice but also improved equipment from the Israelis. More than 5,500 Arabs have been put to work patching and widening the Strip's bumpy roads. Another...
ANONYMITY encourages a student to throw a bottle out a high window without concern for hurting someone or fear of being spotted among a huge grid of windows. It is a feeling that leaves a greater sense of detachment from the administration. As an emotional act, sitting-in the president's office brought the argument of the demonstrators into an understandable reality. Before, their debate was not so much arrogant as unknown...
Goodwin, who has "good hands, good speed, and good potential," according to head football coach John Yovicsin, had a promising grid career cut short late in his freshman year when he broke an ankle against Yale...
...work on the natural preference of rats and mice for the dark; given a choice between entering a lighted or a dark enclosure, the rat will almost invariably enter the dark one. After constructing a short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black box with an electrical grid for a floor, Ungar placed rats one at a time into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar sent electric current through...