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...Opera House would be a grand near metaphor, its unfolding shells echoing the billow of the spinnakers and jibs on the water below, its mat beige and glossy white tiles responding to every nuance of light in the sky. Scarcely a building in Sydney had any relationship to the harbor, but Utzon offered a design as close to its marine environment as the calcined wreathings and sea-cave fenestration of the Piazza San Marco are to the lagoon of Venice...
...South America. So I had white in mind when I designed the Opera House. The final effect will at times resemble what we call Alpengluhen [alpenglow], the color you get on snowcapped mountains when the sun is setting, the beautiful pink and violet reflections from the combination of mat snow and shiny ice." The bouquet of shells, holding the main hall, two secondary theaters, art-exhibition space, a chamber-music room and a restaurant, would be anchored to float above a massive platform containing the several hundred utility rooms of the Opera House. Utzon's podium originated with...
...talks with Nixon had failed to change the U.S. arms policy toward Pakistan, which is anxious to replace matériel lost in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The U.S. shipment of armored personnel carriers during the conflict provoked charges that Washington was favoring Pakistan. The Administration denied it-until Columnist Jack Anderson leaked the now famous memo quoting Henry Kissinger as saying, "The President wants to tilt in favor of Pakistan." The U.S. currently supplies Bhutto with "nonlethal" equipment such as trucks, uniforms and spare parts, and will consider requests for ammunition only on a case-by-case basis...