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...town. United Front lawyers went before a federal district court seeking an injunction to strike down the ordinance, and scores of blacks gathered at Montroy's church for a march on police headquarters. When club-wielding state and local police drove them back into the all-Negro Pyramid Courts housing project, weapons appeared in black and white hands, and Cairo seemed headed for anarchy...
...Manhattan, a 45-story office building would be lost in the crowd. In San Francisco it would not, especially if it were topped by a 220-ft. spire and had the overall shape of a very sharp pyramid. The building in question is the proposed $30 million head office of Transamerica Corporation. When erected, it will be the tallest building in the West, and the issues it raises go straight to the heart of one of the most vexing problems of urban planning: where should the line be drawn between private convenience and the public good, especially when the public...
...Then French-built, orange-colored trains with rubber tires will start rolling along the tracks at three-minute intervals. For months, proud Mexicans have been lining up on Sunday afternoons by the thousands to gawk at the project and its artfully decorated stations, including one built around an Aztec pyramid unearthed during the excavations. They have dubbed the subway "el Cajon" (the Box), from the shape of the concrete tunnel that en cases...
Unlimited Liability. As his under secretary in charge of legislation, he appointed Russell E. Train, a noted conservationist. Hickel stopped developers from wiping out Nevada's Pyramid Lake, habitat of the Paiute Indians. He blocked a builder's plan that threatened to further pollute the Potomac. He sponsored a pilot project uniting three seashore areas around New York Harbor, the first of a series of urban national parks. He dreams of combatting auto fumes with 150-m.p.h. commuter trains: "From five miles out, you'd be downtown quicker than if you drove...
Compression and Restraint. The show was organized by Brown University's Medievalist Stephen K. Scher. The most distinctive characteristic of Romanesque and Gothic sculpture, he points out, derives from the fact that it was designed to be incorporated into a church. "Whether it be the pyramid of a capital," says Scher, "or the perpendicular wall planes of the portal, the sculpture is forced to obey the laws of the structural mass. The resulting compression and restraint resemble a collected horse in dressage; the energy returns upon itself and becomes totally contained within the basic form...