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...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
...Philippine Air Lines, which Soriano organized in 1941. Attacked as a foreigner guilty of monopolistic profiteering, Soriano lost his temper during a Senate hearing on his management of P.A.L. and incautiously snapped out: "A thief thinks everyone else is a thief." The Senate committee issued a report imply ing that some of Soriano's other enter prises had been overcharging P.A.L. for their services - whereupon Soriano gave up operating the airline. But his with drawal has not kept...
...Washington. Dempsey inherited the big tax problems that Ribicoff's costly highway and education pro grams made inevitable. Of the six Republicans, two candidates seem to be ahead: John Alsop, Ivy-clad (Groton and Yale) brother of Writers Stewart and Joseph. Erudite and witty, Alsop - defy ing the cliches of current political nomenclature - calls himself a "progressive liberal." As a state legislator, he irked Catholics by introducing a birth control bill, has since made amends by backing Catholic charities. President of Mutual Insurance Company of Hartford, he barely missed the gubernatorial nomination in 1958. To those who suggested that...
...colliding with a construction workers' crane, and the locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over X-ing out so many Fifth Avenue mansions and pleasant brownstones that he has a nervous breakdown. The most helpless, indomitable. charming ragamuffin of the lot is Leroy, a young Negro boy who plays tunes on glass bowls, sells Bibles, and talks...