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...performance with drum rolls or tense pauses. Their sleight of hand was charmingly, almost childishly transparent. The easiest of the stunts were executed with painstaking care; the most difficult were tossed off nonchalantly. Two girls juggled china vases with their feet. A man did a handstand atop a rickety pyramid of tables, chairs and bricks, then deliberately collapsed the pyramid. Two men, one on the other's shoulders, ran up and down a freestanding ladder...
Crooner Rudy Vallee, 71, finally realized his heart's desire: to have a street named after him. The trouble was that the street he wanted his name on was the one that runs in front of his Hollywood home. He tried last year, but his neighbors on Pyramid Place made such a fuss that an embarrassed public works committee tabled the idea. In Lake Forest, Calif., some 360 miles from Hollywood, officials were more sympathetic to Rudy's ambition. So now Lake Forest has a street called Rue de Vallee. The location: a trailer park. Vallee was only...
...power plant, all underground, containing six huge generators with 17-ton flywheels. The construction, 90% completed, will be finished by the end of 1974. The 7-ft.-thick steel reinforced concrete walls are complete on the outside. Wooden stairs run up on top of the pyramid, out of which stare, one to a side, four empty radar eyes. These "radar support rings," as they are called, are 30 ft. in diameter, and will be able to track hundreds of incoming warheads from several hundred miles out. At their direction, the MSR will launch both long-range missiles and fast little...
Arriving guests were introduced to Nixon by Connally in a formal reception in the ranch's high-ceilinged living room. The guest list was compiled from the very top of the Texas power pyramid: Dallas Billionaire H. Ross Perot, H.L. Hunt's son Nelson, John Murchison, former Dallas Mayor Erik Jonsson, Houston Millionairess Ima Hogg, construction Magnate George Brown and Fort Worth's Perry Bass, who helped hoist Connally to political power. Publicly, most of the guests were Democrats; in the eccentricities of Texas politics even the most hidebound conservatives pay lip service to traditional ties...
...accurate drawings, even such as those of the immortal Palladio, could never have succeeded in conveying . . ." So in his renderings, the modest stones of Hadrian's Tomb were translated into a crushing, megalithic rock pile that dwarfed the tatterdemalion beggars at its foot; such Roman monuments as the Pyramid of Cestius, which in real life is as inconspicuous as any pyramid can reasonably be, rivaled the Pyramid of Cheops in height and spread. This kind of heroic misinformation provoked some murmuring from English dilettanti who, arriving in Rome armed with nothing but their recollections of Piranesi's engravings...