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...Pei, the architect for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, said yesterday that completion of the project was at least four years away...
...works by modern U.S. composers than any other orchestra. The town of Columbus, Ind. (pop. 27,500), has a church and bank designed by Eero Saarinen, a school by San Francisco's John Carl Warnecke and a town library being designed by New York's I. M. Pei. And Saarinen's most spectacular building, the John Deere headquarters, stands on a wide sweep of lawns in Moline...
...unrealistic. (Another answer, advanced early and supported with great zeal by Mrs. Kennedy, was to create a lively, variegated commercial district of small shops, restaurants, and book stores that would attract and hold the local population of students, intellectuals and young professionals; one will have to wait for I.M. Pei's final masterplan to see how much this idea has survived...
James V. Lavin, director of the fund raising campaign, said yesterday that the architects, I.M. Pei and Associates, probably would not finish their work until October. "Then we'll decide whether to raise $22 million or leave the fund as it is," he said...
Since then, Pei has been working on the details of the library and the archives, which will be put under Federal supervision when they are completed, the Institute and commercial dwellings. Pei hopes that the commercial buildings such as restaurants and gift shops will help case the strain on Harvard Square that will be produced by an estimated 700,000 visitors per year to the library...