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Raising money for building in Djakarta is like planning a charity ball in Manhattan : there is plenty of high-sounding competition. The National Monument Fund, for instance, is building two monuments. A national monument in the shape of a 300-ft. obelisk is going up across from Sukarno's palace. Also in construction is a 120-ft. West Irian monument memorializing the recent diplomatic conquest of Dutch New Guinea. Designed by the Big Builder himself, the West Irian monument is topped by a 30-ft. bronze man breaking out of his chains. Meanwhile government spending on social welfare...
...Sukarno project is already finished -the handsome, impressive $17 million complex built to house that monument to international acrimony through sports, the recently completed Asian Games. It has been renamed Bung (Brother) Karno Sports Center. Since the whole of any monument is only equal to the sum of its parts, the parts have also been renamed: Bung Karno Sports Hall, Bung Karno Stadium, Bung Karno Swimming Pool, Bung Karno Hockey Stadium. Most of the 50,000 citizens displaced by the Bung Karno Sports Center are still living in Djakarta shantytowns. About their only recourse is to pray at the world...
...Housing. Nearing completion in Chicago is a double-barreled monument to circularity. Marina City, poking its twin towers 65 stories above the Chicago River north of the Loop, is the tallest apartment house ever built...
...first glance it seems a monument to absent-mindedness-a potpourri of unrelated products from bread-bagging machines to rocket launchers, all stuffed improbably under the wing of one of the nation's most anonymous corporate giants. But FMC Corp. of San Jose, Calif., is no happenstance hodgepodge. It is a carefully laid industrial mosaic that since 1950 has run up an enviable record of twelve consecutive yearly increases in both sales and profits. Last year sales of FMC's 14 divisions soared to $415 million; in the first half of this year they climbed another...
...announcement: as of midnight next day, there would be no more junketing through the U.S. sector to the war memorial. Instead, the Communists could either break a path through their own Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, or use the Invalidenstrasse crossing point directly into the British sector, where the monument is located...