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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compare with France's centennial present of the Statue of Liberty. Britain has loaned to the U.S. for a year a copy of the Magna Carta, signed in 1215. (In like spirit, an anonymous U.S. institution helped the British government last week to buy back Flodden Field, site of the Battle of Hastings.) Canada, which became a new home for some 40,000 exiled American Tories during and after the revolt, has contributed a $1.1 million book of photographs, Between Friends, of the 40-mile zone that straddles the world's longest undefended border. Despite the current bristling...
...projects are almost ready to go. On the southern edge of downtown, an old railroad terminal will be improved to serve as a transportation center that should anchor other developments in the area. In the very heart of the downtown retail area, demolition has begun on the site for a $220 million shopping project like no other in the U.S. Called Lafayette Place, it will include department stores, boutiques and European-style arcades, all arranged along internal streets and cul-de-sacs. The point: to compete directly with suburban shopping malls by creating a distinctive urban shopping environment. In many...
...downtown in itself, with offices, shops and a strikingly handsome 20-story hotel (architect: Chicago's Harry Weese). Financially, the shops have not yet drawn a crowd of customers, but aesthetically Crown Center is a smash hit. Its existence is one reason Kansas City was chosen as the site for next month's Republican Convention...
...tidy rip-off here, a tasteful price-gouge there−it was all to be expected once the Democrats had picked New York City as the site of their convention. But not even the worldly-wise among the press had anticipated the size of the serpents that lurk around the Big Apple and its Garden; Madison Square, that...
...begin with, Philadelphia is not closed, and in fact has huge traffic jams to prove it. So far this year, more than 1.5 million people have seen the No. 1 Bicentennial attraction, the Liberty Bell, which has been moved from its traditional place inside Independence Hall to a site opposite on Independence Mall. A surprising number of tourists are astonished to learn that the bell does not ring, but they get to touch it, exclaim over its famous crack and listen to a lecture that tells its history...