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...Plaza '80, the only female watching the game in the Union, rooted for Dallas because she comes from Texas...
...entering into a "corrupt understanding" with Local Developer Hal Hansen. Granted immunity from prosecution, Hansen talked a lot. He alleged that Fasi was to have received $500,000 disguised as campaign contributions from Hansen in exchange for the contract to build a $50 million city-sponsored condominium called Kukui Plaza; the mayor. Hansen said, had already received approximately $65,000 in goods and cash. Fasi insisted that the charge was part of a "political vendetta" against him by Hawaii Governor George Ariyoshi, who had narrowly defeated him in the 1974 Democratic primary and was hoping to avoid a challenge...
...Loeb Drama Center and its Countway Library of Medicine. In line with the bank's desire for a "humane" building, Stubbins proposed to loft an aluminum-faced structure on huge columns 112-ft. tall, thus creating the space for the shopping area and atrium, a sunken entrance plaza with a waterfall tumbling down from street level, a renovated subway station and, of course, the new church. "Aesthetically," says Stubbins, 65, "the Citicorp Center brings back to the city lightness and brightness-it meets the street with drama, and opens up the city canyons in a way no other building...
...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...
Stubbins was also the architect for the church, which has five entrances from the street or the plaza. None have steps. This was Pastor Peterson's idea. "I wanted Saint Peter's to be related to the side walk," he explains. "We're all handicapped. We all need to move in." The sanctuary, into which people on the street can freely gaze, has movable pews, a movable altar and a 2,175-pipe German organ that stands like a sculpture on one wall. Pastor Peterson persuaded premiere Sculptress Louise Nevelson, a Russian Jew, to design the interior...