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...million U.S. Science Pavilion, which stands at the summit of the fairground's gently sloping site, is a buoyant, crystalline stylization of the Alhambra (see color), with soaring arches of Gothic lacework and arcades of Moorish tracery. Covering an area larger than six football fields, it is the biggest exhibit based on a single theme ever assembled by government or private industry, will later be used for educational and scientific purposes. One of the fair's most spectacular features is its International Fountain, designed by two young Tokyo architects whose plan won a $250.000 international competition last year...
Their art work, much of which was found in excellent condition, was skillfully and tastefully made. Their figurines look as if they had been modeled by a Copper Age Picasso. They cut conch shells (traded from Egypt) into delicate lacework. Turquoise from Sinai they made into necklaces and amulets...
...ranks of newcomers grew, the Window Shop expanded proportionately. Started in a tiny room on Church Street, it was a women's exchange where refugee wives could sell embroidery, lacework, or pastry. Its only distinguishing feature was the large window after which the shop was named. A modest success, the store soon moved to larger quarters, finally settling on Brattle Street in the Blacksmith's Shop immortalized by Long fellow. Now employing over sixty workers, the Window Shop has seven small dining rooms, a gift and dress store, and a bakery...
Lindsley's vast project will take 20 years or more to complete. A lacework of Yukon rivers and lakes, whose waters now flow north to the Arctic Ocean, will have to be dammed off in the north to form a new lake thousands of square miles in area and nearly 200 ft. deep. The backed-up waters, under one plan, would force the moving of the Yukon's largest town, Whitehorse (pop. 2,594), and the rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters...
...aqueducts crept out like thirsty tubular feelers to the watersheds of Long Island and the Catskills. It built 18 big dams, stored water in 30 lakes and reservoirs, laid 5,200 miles of mains and pipes to feed the city's hidden lacework of metal capillaries. But World War II, which halted work on a new aqueduct, boosted the city's ever-rising population alarmingly. Last summer's grass-crisping drought did the rest...