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...pointed to with pride as a remnant of a great African past. No one is sure who built this temple city, probably in the last half of the 15th century, but one is struck by the fact that, for all its grandeur, it was erected stone by stone, without mortar, with the most primitive technology, at a time when the Pyramids were ancient, when the Acropolis was old, when Chartres was no longer new. It is no use denying that in Africa one often feels a sense of Western cultural superiority, and this contributes to the white South African attitude...
Pope Pius IX thought otherwise, and in 1852 Bishop Neumann plunged into the hurly-burly of mid-century church affairs. The debt-ridden church was swelling with poor immigrants, and Neumann was forced to become absorbed in bricks-and-mortar fund raising. He began building churches at the rate of one almost every month, and devoted much care to the completion of the cathedral roof. He was particularly concerned with the building of Catholic schools, for he said openly that public schools were dens of immorality and heresy. When he became bishop, only 500 Philadelphia children went to parochial schools...
...country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls-an attack that did not prove serious enough to cancel the nightly sundowner cruise for tourists along the Zambezi River...
...refreshing to know that no matter what I say, I can't be expelled from the country or barred from getting back in." David Beckwith was glad to get back too. During six months in the Middle East he had been under machine-gun and mortar fire in Lebanon and Morocco. He had never been shot, however, until last week when he was mugged on Capitol Hill in Washington. He is now recovering from a stomach wound and pondering the ironies of chance. Barrett Seaman, moving from Chicago to Bonn, is aghast at the German bureaucracy. "The number...
Urban Machine. To the chagrin of some Parisians, the competition was won by two foreigners, Italy's Renzo Piano and Britain's Richard Rogers. In the midst of Beaubourg's crumbling brick and mortar, they proceeded to construct what they called a "living urban machine." They planned a six-story building to be formed literally inside out -structural supports on the outside, along with a formidable array of ducts, gantries, movable mezzanines and color-coded pipes for heating, electricity, air conditioning and fire control. Attached to one external facade is a huge escalator with transparent walls, illustrating...