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...Lafayette Place, shoppers will be able to move from store to store at three levels: in a subterranean concourse, on ground level and, by way of flying bridges, on the second floor. Instead of simply recreating the usual suburban shopping center-a fortress for retailing with all attention focused inward-there will be continuity with the surrounding area. Some of the new stores will front on established city streets, others on Lafayette Place's own maze of pedestrian malls and glassed-in galerias, which were designed by the architects (I.M. Pei & Partners with Cossutta & Ponte) to have the same...
Martin, who succeeded Ellsworth Bunker as Ambassador to South Viet Nam in 1973, has provided his enemies with ample ammunition. Distrustful of the press, which he blames for "distortions about Viet Nam that turned America inward," he has had some notable battles with U.S. correspondents in Saigon, whom he has shunned.* After Senator Edward Kennedy, in a letter to Kissinger, raised a series of questions about U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Ambassador Martin-in an undiplomatic cable to the State Department, that was predictably leaked from Washington to the press -replied: "I think it would be the height of folly...
...much concerned with these matters of duty. The obligation is a burden, but the brother takes a grave pride in helping his sister's old lover. What is canny in this movie is the way these various obligations are made to snake around each other, then abruptly thrust inward to threaten and destroy. Unfortunately, these serpentine strands also cause a great deal of confusion and hob ble the movie just when it should be moving briskly along...
...philosophically unsatisfactory. "Closed universe" scientists have long contended that if there was enough matter in or between the galaxies, there would be enough mutual gravitational attraction to gradually slow their outward flight. The expansion would halt, and all the parts of the universe would begin to fall inward, eventually crushing together again in a final cataclysm. Some closed universe theorists hold out the possibility that matter would in effect rebound from the crunch in another big bang and that the universe would continue to oscillate, expanding and contracting forever. Now both theories seem to be seriously undermined...
...Recent times have seen a reversal of this, and few people, including the councilors involved, can really explain why. Possibly, the activist, concerned and frequently liberal citizen has lost faith in his ability to deal with the larger issues of poverty, the War and inflation and is increasingly turned inward, to a scale that he can have some impact on, and that has some meaning to him. Increasingly, also, the great liberal institutions have fallen short for those who asked much (perhaps too much) of them. And they have particularly fallen short in the close view of neighborhood concerns...