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...west front of the U.S. Capitol is in danger of tumbling down. Begun in 1793, the sandstone edifice has 21 cracks running down its full 105-ft. height, and more than 1,000 smaller cracks zigzagging crazily in every direction. The front portico is held up only by wrought-iron straps, and in three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under...
Resting on a bed of flowers, Shastri was placed in the portico of his residence for public view. All through the night, as thousands of Indians filed past in a final tribute, Lalita stayed by her husband, frequently reaching out to stroke his face, and sometimes, overcome by weariness, resting her head for a moment on his pillow. The next day Shastri's body was lifted onto a gun carriage for the final five-mile drive through the dusty city to the Jumna, a tributary of the sacred Ganges...
...solution, when it came, so delighted Yamasaki that he confesses to having jumped up and down with glee: a giant, six-story portico, which would marry the building, mall and park. To slenderize his trumpet-topped columns as much as possible, he manufactured them in one piece on the site and derricked them into place. The building repeats their rhythm around the facade in the manner of a Greek temple...
Yamasaki's 25-ton columns soar 80 ft. The Parthenon's portico rises only 34 ft., and the columns of Paris' Madeleine church climb 65 ft. But Yamasaki winces at the comparison. He prefers to call his colonnade, in congenial fashion, a porch. "When you build something," Yamasaki insists, "you ought to be a good neighbor...
...portico before the Hartford Times, where Presidential candidates and other politicians have traditionally addressed the citizens of Connecticut, there was a sea of people whose number defied even the most experienced crowd estimators. Despite the recommendations released over the weekend by the Warren Commission, the president continually climbed atop his limousine to street the crowd--to the obvious consternation of battered Secret Service agents...