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...Belt looked menancing; they were threatening to make the highway a volatile election issue. Thus, after meeting with leaders of the anti-Belt campaign, Volpe announced that new facts had come to his attention and that, as a result, he had ordered the DPW "to start from scratch" in finding a route for Cambridge...
...Smithsonian argued before the commission that the temple should be erected outdoors on the banks of the Potomac, for the benefit of the capital's 9,000,000 annual tourists. The Smithsonian maintained that the temple's porous sandstone, which is so soft a man can scratch it with his finger, could be coated with synthetic resins to protect it in the East Coast's soggy climate. The Met cited testimony indicating that any outdoor setting would reduce the temple to a pile of sand and stone stumps in 30 years...
...Bronx primaries will therefore be a very decisive mile-stone in Lindsay's career. If the Lindsay-oriented candidates succeed, the mayor will have proved that he can build a Republican party almost from scratch, fundamentally altering the political structure of the City. Lindsay will have succeded where LaGuardia failed, by breaking the Democrats' long and onchallenged hold on New York...
...billion and have not stopped yet-East Germany now ranks as the second greatest industrial power in the East bloc (after the Soviet Union) and as ninth in the entire world. It is building new plants and new industrial towns all over, has developed a thriving shipbuilding industry from scratch. Such traditional East German industries as chemicals and optics are again enjoying international prestige. East Germany's economy is considered a growth economy, advancing about 4% a year...
Vacuum of Power. Thus, virtually without bloodshed, nearly 400 years of czardom was swept away in a stroke. But creating from scratch a new government able to rule the vast reaches of Russia proved far more difficult. The Duma committee had included every shade of political color, from socialists to disaffected aristocracy. To head the first provisional government that followed. Prince Lvov, a liberal nobleman, was chosen. The Bolsheviks soon withdrew their tacit support from this "bourgeois" government, and Lenin hurried back to Petrograd to organize his attack. By July 2 he had mounted a sufficiently impressive uprising of sailors...