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...world is bringing forth a veritable brood of buildings. The Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first major American art institution to be designed by a woman--let alone a woman born in Baghdad--has a construction starting date of December. A garden exhibition center in Weil am Rhein in Germany, her second building for furniture manufacturer Vitra, opened last month. And Hadid was just named the winner of a worldwide competition for a contemporary-art center in Rome, beating out such highly regarded designers as Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas...
...Administration may have found it. Since first proposing a U.S. air drop of food and medical supplies into eastern Bosnia, the White House and Pentagon have made continuous modifications to head off trouble. Plans for fighter escorts were scrapped. U.S. C-130 cargo planes flying out of Germany's Rhein-Main air base were to make the drops at night from an altitude of 10,000 ft. or more, to minimize any chance of being hit by ground fire. And they were to be preceded by planes dropping leaflets telling ground forces what was about to be parachuted into their...
...feeding starving people, but the airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says a skeptical Pentagon source, "would...
Despite Douglas' punchy comebacks, Samsel and Rhein bravely plowed on, presenting the actor with a glitzy, showgirl style...
Members of the black tie crowd, who had paid $150 per seat, punctuated the evening with applause, including several standing ovations, as Samsel and Rhein gave an overview of Douglas' career...