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...largest project in the city is just getting under way: White River State Park, a 250-acre, $200 million park just west of downtown. It will feature the Indianapolis Zoo, a performing arts center, botanical gardens, restaurants and a 1,000-ft., $15 million tower reminiscent of Italy's Leaning Tower of Pisa...
Indianapolis now boasts a ballet company as well as a fast-improving symphony orchestra, a repertory theater and the world's largest children's museum. Unlike other expanding cities, Indianapolis still remains affordable and offers some of the lowest housing costs in the country: the average price of a single-family home sold in the first quarter of this year...
...television stations broadcast the national anthem. In downtown Bogota, more than 10,000 people gathered in silence as 1,000 doves were released from the parliament building. The occasion: the beginning of an unprecedented yearlong truce between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.), the largest of the country's five leftist guerrilla groups...
...Coachmen Industries, the Elkhart area's largest manufacturer, sales shot up 80% last year to $478 million, and profits nearly quadrupled. During the first three months of 1984 profits leaped another 89%, even though production was restricted by a shortage of chassis on which motor-home bodies are mounted. Complains Chairman Thomas Corson: "Detroit can't send us enough, so we're starting to use Toyota chassis...
...Public Art Trust. But, he says, "mostly I've used my money to start my atelier and sculpture-casting foundry." This facility, located near Trenton, is a $2.5 million state-of-the-process installation that employs 140 assistants and students. It is one of the world's largest, and such sculptors as George Segal and Marisol have works cast there...