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Builders try to overturn the landmark status of Lever House...
...first thought, the idea of preserving New York City's 31-year-old Lever House as a historic landmark seems absurd. To some observers, the 24-story, blue-green glass slab seems shabby and unimpressive in the ice canyon of Park Avenue's taller and newer glass slabs. Yet last November the city's unsentimental landmarks preservation commission said that Lever House was worth saving. It pronounced the building in effect as important a memento of America's history as, say, the gilded facade of Grand Central Terminal, about ten blocks down the avenue. Now Fisher...
Despite its relative youth and somewhat dilapidated appearance, Lever House is as worthy a landmark as Grand Central Terminal. If Lever House, which is smaller than zoning codes permit, is an inefficient moneymaker and a somewhat obsolete office building, Grand Central is almost antediluvian. Nonetheless, New York's historic preservationists won an important battle five years ago when the Supreme Court defeated a preposterous proposal to build a new skyscraping tower on the old structure...
...suck up the smell of burning flesh. There is little time left. On your right you can see the waisthigh, one-way mirror in the wall. Behind the mirror is the executioner, standing before a gray marble control panel with gauges, switches and a foot-long lever of wood and metal at hip level...
...executioner will pull this lever four times. Each time 2,000 volts will course through your body, making your eyeballs first bulge, then burst, and then broiling your brains...