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What spurs on preservationists is that the project is controlled by an Architect of the Capitol who is not an architect. They recall that J. George Stewart, 76, an engineer and onetime Congressman, was responsible for the multimillion-dollar fiasco of the Rayburn House Office Building across the street south of the Capitol. Stewart's critics were also furious when he used marble in the east front extension...
...though his multimillion-dollar publishing company still demands most of his worktime, and his family-three children and six grandchildren-most of his playtime, Berlin refuses to turn in his keyboard, never looks back for long. "The past is fine," he is fond of saying, "but you can't live there...
Died. Joseph E. Ridder, 80, chairman of Ridder Publications, a multimillion-dollar chain of 24 newspapers (Journal of Commerce, St. Paul Pioneer Press), run by a family dynasty, whose successes allowed him to indulge his love of sports, as he put more than $100,000 into the Minnesota Vikings football team and $750,000 into the yacht Constellation in 1964, when it successfully defended the America's Cup; of uremia; in West Palm Beach...
...market is rapidly growing. Japanese teams are making surveys for a power project in Thailand, a harbor in Cambodia, fertilizer plants in the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, and numerous other industries in the area. They are also surveying and likely to win some multimillion-dollar construction contracts in the Mekong River development project in Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Throughout Southeast Asia, Japanese businessmen and local entrepreneurs have set up 35 joint companies, including steel mills, auto-assembly plants, transistor-radio factories and big iron, copper, bauxite and nickel mines...
...Assistant Secretary of the Interior, a farmer and former Governor of North Dakota who became one of the first high Government officials to recognize the unlimited possibilities of desalting sea water, invested $150,000 in federal funds for a pilot desalinization project that was the forerunner of the multimillion-dollar plant currently in use at Guantánamo; of cancer; in Fargo...