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...Paris' Pompidou Center, a Renè Magritte retrospective...
...show of more than 200 works by Renè Magritte-paintings, drawings and miscellaneous objets surrealistes -which opened last month at the Pompidou Center in Paris has been jammed with visitors ever since. It deserves its popularity. Magritte's strange paintings are still the best way into the territory of the free mind that surrealism called its own and named le merveilleux...
...downtown Detroit is being transformed by a building boom. The biggest addition to the skyline is the much heralded Renaissance Center, completed at a cost of $350 million in 1977 by a consortium led by Henry Ford II. A cluster of five glass towers next to the Detroit River, "Ren Cen" consists of a 73-story hotel, the world's tallest, and four 39-story office buildings. More than 90% of the office space has been rented, and the complex's shopping arcade, which includes elegant boutiques such as Courreges, Ungaro and Cartier, has brought a fresh touch...
...Ren Cen's profits have been so enticing that New York City's Rockefeller Center Inc., intends to join other developers in building two office towers near by at a total cost of $70 million. The 20,000-seat Joe Louis sports and convention arena, also on the river bank, is near completion. Luxury apartments are scheduled to be built on an adjacent 35-acre plot, and some 70 large construction projects are being developed for the rest of the downtown area. Indeed, downtown apartments are in such demand that they have become scarce and rents are rising...
Beyond uplifting urban renewal, Detroit offered the Republicans 17,400 seats in Cobo Hall, which is just three blocks from Ren Cen and its towering Plaza Hotel, with a revolving rooftop bar and a 240-seat nightclub. The hotel will serve as the party's convention headquarters. City officials assured Republicans that more than 16,000 hotel beds will be available, although only some 3,000 will be in downtown Detroit. Many will be across the river in Windsor, Ontario, and others 40 miles away in Ann Arbor and even in dormitories at the University of Michigan...