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Bernays arranged for Peter Blake, editor of the Architectural Forum and author of God's Own Junkyard to come to Cambridge. He opposed the underpasses and explained the technical sides of the city planning...
...Stressful Present. Two leaders of the new generation are Eduardo Paolozzi and Anthony Caro, both 41. Paolozzi turned from golem grotesques of junkyard assemblages of gears and bolts to hand-tooled totems, such as Artificial Sun, which are unthreatening icons to a world that accepts machine culture willingly. Caro, a Cambridge engineering graduate, worked with Moore for two years until "I'd come to feel that bronze was using me." So he began welding elegant elongated girderwork in steel instead of making "people substitutes" in bronze...
...Junkyard bargains, from limestone putti to dented iron deer, have long been available for those with offbeat tastes. But as architectural monuments are bulldozed into extinction across the land, a new group of collectors is springing up - architectural buffs who first picket to preserve the best of the old, then, if the wreckers move in, haunt the ruins in hopes of rescuing a cornice, a caryatid, a cartouche, an ornamented corbel, or some Tiffany glass...
...identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great scenic rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory." The President also put his weight behind efforts to clear Washington's own river, the Potomac, of unsightly debris-such as the rusty aquatic junkyard of gutted World War I ships at La Plata, Md. Water pollution from both sewage and industrial waste, said the President, has reached the point where effective authority is required to prevent it at its source, rather than rely on palliative measures to cope with detergent-filled lakes and rivers...
Manhattan D.A. Frank Hogan's investigators were soon less sure. Before signing his confession, Whitmore claimed that he had plucked the snapshot from his fathers junkyard in Wildwood, N.J., to "show my friends I've got a white girl." Last fall the D.A.'s men displayed the picture around Wildwood; it was easily recognized as that of a local girl named Arlene Franco, who had thrown it away. Keeping this development to themselves, Hogan's men also secretly discovered a witness who saw Whitmore in Wildwood, about 150 miles away from Manhattan, calmly sitting...