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WORKMEN had all but finished festooning the reviewing stand atop the mammoth vermilion-pillared Gate of Heavenly Peace overlooking Peking's Tienanmen Square. The spectators' stand had been built and bamboo scaffolding prepared for the traditional giant portraits of Mao Tse-tung and Lenin. Squadrons of military and civilian marchers were rehearsing for the biggest event on the Chinese political calendar, the National Day parade, scheduled...
...after" Governor Ronald Reagan, the report made a point of the fact that some of the owners it cited were heavy contributors to the Governor's campaign chest. These same corporations may also receive lavish tax benefits. The report was especially critical of such state projects as a mammoth scheme currently underway to transfer water from the northern part of the state to the dryer south...
...courtyard is the center of the House," said Carlhain, and it is hard to disagree. But what poses for court-yard in Mather House is a dead space, a Savannah so criss-crossed with mammoth concrete walks that the oddly shaped patches of grass which remain to intrude might well be the gravesites of tired isosceles triangles. The lack of large or central trees was also planned: "I wanted the students to be able to play Frisbee...
...Most of us feel like comparative strangers to one another," repeats Robert Aaron in the very first of the alumni biographies that comprise the '46er's mammoth 1600 page class record. "It would have been nice to have had it otherwise...
They all live together in a massive twelve-room stucco-modern house on a large lot guarded by an electric gate out in Los Angeles' sprawling San Fernando Valley. The place is mammoth, flanked by a guesthouse, playhouse and servants' quarters. But there are only six bedrooms so that Michael-culture hero though he is-has to triple up with Randy and Marlon, and the other brothers are forced to share...