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...grounds inside sparkle with fountains, winding waterways, aqueducts, pools and water sculptures. The fair has permanently opened up 4,000 ft. of riverfront that had become inaccessible to the city. Tall ships and small, paddle wheelers and naval vessels will tie up there during the summer. Most of the exhibitions, including those of the U.S., China, France, Egypt, Canada, Korea and the Mississippi states, feature water-related history, culture and technology. The water theme has provided a natural cue-if one is needed-for an Aquacade, styled after Billy Rose's hit of the 1939 New York World...
...fair will make a welcome permanent mark on New Orleans. Taking over a swath of the levee that had been cut off by wharves and railyards, the big show will leave behind the riverfront promenade, the gondola system and the Great Hall, which will become a convention center. It has also hastened the refurbishing of more than two dozen 19th and early 20th century warehouses, whose harmonious blend of textures and styles-Greek revival, Italianate and postmodern-is unmatched in any other U.S. city. These will be converted into badly needed offices, apartments and stores. The future star...
...whatever doubts may linger within the group, the consensus of the stabilization committee, adds 71-year-old Geraigery, is that "the projected development for the East Cambridge Riverfront, in its essence, is beneficial to the community...
...Connecticut suburbanites who commute daily to Manhattan. When the bridge collapsed just before 1:30 a.m., however, only four vehicles were zooming over the affected eastbound lanes: two tractor-trailers and two passenger cars. A few hundred feet away, Gordon Oilman was drawn to his home's riverfront window. "I thought I heard an explosion," he says. "I looked out and saw a truck and a car coming off the bridge...
...encouragement of Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who had led a Marxist coup on his nearby Caribbean island in 1979, Bouterse drifted gradually leftward. Soon he was visiting Fidel Castro, singing his praises and allowing the Soviets and Cubans to open well-staffed embassies in the riverfront capital of Paramaribo. Nevertheless, Bouterse's revolutionary fervor remained relatively lackadaisical: he never bothered to nationalize private enterprises or muzzle frequent criticism from the press...