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Although travel from Los Angeles airports was not affected by the quake, two interstate highways were closed at some points in the Los Angeles area because of buckled pavement or collapsed overpasses...
...inhabitants died either in the 1943 uprising against the Nazis or in prison camps. Solemnly, Brandt placed a huge wreath at the base of the monument. Then, unexpectedly, he dropped to his knees. For an electrifying half-minute, his face sculpted in deep emotion, Brandt knelt on the pavement. It is particularly noteworthy that this symbolic act of national atonement was performed by a man who spent World War II in voluntary exile from Hitler's Germany...
...been a thing that sensitive and timid natures would regard without a shudder. But Charles Reich, 42-year-old Yale professor, has a vision, and the vision has given him courage. He calls it the "Greening of America," and means the emergence-" like flowers pushing up through a concrete pavement" -of a new consciousness, a new perception of and attitude toward the modern technological world, which will spread and flourish through the soul of our society...
...enlightenment doesn't hurry up, it may indeed be "like flowers pushing up through a concrete pavement," only a sad, slight "greening of America...
Because of its shortness (75 ft. by 15 ft.), the sidewalk serves more as a sophisticated billboard for the three art galleries than as an important piece of urban design for New York. Even so, it calls attention to the visual importance of the pavement underfoot, and sets one example of how to make American cities more interesting for the overly neglected pedestrian...