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...Epitaph Written. In his day, Orozco was acclaimed for what were considered his uniquely Mexican qualities. He drew his subject matter from Aztec, Mayan and Toltec mythology, the history of the Spanish conquest and the 1910 Revolution. His colors are violent and rough, like those of the native Indian pottery and fabric designs. His figures are powerful, primordial and violent; their every thrust calls out for social justice...
Typical of their frustration is the case of the Panamanian-based Mayan Line steamship company. Under the 1952 ruling, Mayan went into two U.S. courts in Louisiana with a $668,000 claim against Cuba for unpaid shipping charges, and won uncontested judgments in both. When defectors sailed a Cuban freighter into Norfolk harbor in 1961, Mayan was ready, attached the ship and its cargo of sugar bound for Russia. But the Czech embassy, caretaker for Castro in Washington, invoked sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between...
...Mayan got its second chance this June, when the Cuban freighter Aracelio Iglesia collided with a Norwegian ship near the Panama Canal and had to be towed to the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone for repairs. Again Mayan filed for attachment, again the Czech embassy intervened, and again-last month -the claim was dismissed...
...Blocky Mayan pyramids are only one of the images evoked by Lundy's broken wall that advances and retreats in disciplined platoons of texture. They also "express the complexity of an IBM machine," says the architect. Between and above, the gaps yield clerestories that make the building, says Lundy, "a jewel box that lets light in during the day and light out at night." Inside are multiple concrete trees that break up the interior into a garden, which is accentuated by the sunken atrium in the middle...
Coming out of the Mayan kiosk a 60 acre arena of structural steel is before you. To the left is being put together an 875 foot long office building, curved along old Cambridge Street. In front a three-piece office building is rising, and below that is the plaza and foundation of new City Hall. To the right is the end of Washington Street, an easy connection with the department store sector. Two permanent landmarks edge the project--Sears Crescent and Faneuil Hall. Will citizens freely exchange political ideas in the government plaza? Will modern architecture and a combined location...