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These and similar scenes at eight other historic sites this summer have marked the progress of an invaluable federal program called the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Administered by the National Park Service, with technical assistance from the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Sticks and Stones of History | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

His devotion to minority causes has made him popular in the 18th District, which is 43% black and 31% Mexican American. Leland speaks out on global issues as well and knows how to capitalize on his flamboyance. "There's always the risk of going off the edge," says California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Faces for an Old Struggle | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

Unlike almost everyone else in the world, NHK viewers seem to regard television as life enhancing and benign. The reason is that NHK actually lives up to most of its lofty goals. Launched in 1953, the TV network is self-governing and independent of all political authority. Its constitution grandly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Lofty TV Goals | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

And there was more. Three national men's squash titles, fourth place at the NCAA women's cross country meet, the most points ever scored by Harvard in the Yale football game (The Game, that is), the preservation of the NCAA's longest current Division I swimming dual meet winning...

Author: By Michael D. Knobler, | Title: Sis, Boom, Bah Humbug | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

What turned them-and countless laymen-against such a future is that so much of it was realized. In St. Louis all 33 buildings in the unlivable concrete Pruitt-Igoe housing project were deservedly demolished in the mid-1970s. The sudden popularity of historic building preservation is, in large measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Whatever Became of the Future? | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

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