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...heart of Atlanta is rising Peachtree Center, a $175 million com plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...
...with an eagle-eye Questar lens, can scan the full sweep of a ski run from its aerie on a mountain top. Other miniature cameras are installed in skiers' helmets and on sleds to provide a kind of rumble-seat view of the courses. To coordinate the com plex operations of ABC's crew, which at 250 strong is more than twice the size of the U.S. Olympic team, the network maintains a command post that suggests that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. Day and night, the center dispatches the network's four helicopters, six roving...
...main elements in Johnson's com plex bag of restrictions...
...bare, flat non-style, in which events-tragical, comical, pastoral or historical-were impersonally told in the same tone of voice, can now be seen as a deliberate esthetic contrivance. The object? To convey by a massive weight of incident the feebleness of the individual within the com plex web of modern industrial society, technologically sophisticated but barbarous in human terms, its impersonality the enemy of the person. Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the few leftist intellectuals to take any interest in the later Dos Passos, once said of his work: "I know of none-not even Kafka...
Even the flight's one notable failure -the unexpected early end to Astronaut Richard Gordon's space walk - provided scientists with valuable data that may help prevent similar problems on future missions. It was also a humbling reminder that for all his powerful rockets, com plex capsules and sophisticated electron ics systems, man's frail frame itself is the limiting factor in space exploration...