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...Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
...rapidly developing little politician named John F. Kennedy Jr. who stole the show. Even before his mother arrived, John delighted curious airport spectators by mischievously snatching a Secret Service man's hat and pulling it ludicrously down over his own ears. Sister Caroline beat him up the ramp of the family plane to greet her mother, but John Jr. did it the showman's way -scrambling up on all fours. He even got to ride all the way home in his mother...
They said the Drive would have to be at least 100 feet wide at the Boylston St. underpass in order to accommodate the necessary turn-off ramps and median divider. Depending on the exact position of the underpass, a ramp will grase--or run directly through--the Weld Boat House...
...audience, however, it means a chance to see Her Grace, swaddled in a frock that may well be a 19th century golf bag and surmounted by a flat green hat that looks like a Sussex divot, fight free of a tenacious seat belt, roll down the ramp and stagger to the airport bar, where the headwaiter respectfully bellows: "A LARGE BRANDY...
...pedestrian ramp which passes through the center of the building appears in the designs which Le Corbusier submitted for the Palace of the Soviets in 1931, and was previously included in the Savoye Villa of Poissy, France. The interplay of levels which has come to characterize many of Le Corbusier's recent buildings is largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort...