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...gigantic undulating steel-rod-reinforced tent to Russia's glass-encased structure to Britain's blunted, flag-blazoned spire to the U.S.'s 20-story-high geodesic sphere to the pioneering functionalism of Habitat 67 (where Pearson has an apartment) and Canada's own inverted pyramid Katimavik (Eskimo for gathering place). The unifying theme of the exposition, "Man and His World," is taken from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Terre des Homines and his ringing affirmation: "To be a man is to feel that by carrying one stone you can contribute...
...effectively organize the news for the public, Reston advocates a new format for reflective articles which he calls "case study outlines." Instead of the old style pyramid reporting which gives the most dramatic facts in descending order of sensational value, Reston advocates a new kind of reporting specially designed to pose foreign policy alternatives. First would come an objective statement of the relative facts, then a policy alternative with arguments for and against, followed by description and debate of other possible courses of action...
...named the Embarcadero Center, but San Franciscans immediately dubbed it "Rockefeller Center West." Its heart will be three slender office towers 25, 45 and 60 stories tall. At one end of the five-block site will rise an 800-room convention hotel shaped on one side like a terraced pyramid, equipped on another with a 16 story enclosed garden court. There will be three theaters (two of them for live drama), art galleries, shops, restaurants and even a wine museum. A fountain-dotted pedestrian mall two stories above traffic-clogged streets will link the buildings with one another and with...
Though the Second Pyramid was built by Cheops' son, only one passageway has been discovered leading into it; only one burial chamber has been found and no networks of corridors similar to those in Cheops have ever been located...
...Alvarez hopes they are there, awaiting only the arrival of his spark chamber to be found. "After a boyhood spent watching his father's workers erecting a beautiful and complex series of chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid," he asks, "would Chephren be content to erect a solid and uninteresting pile of limestone blocks as his own pyramid...