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Eerie Drive. The following day, after taking the Kissinger shuttle to Damascus, we were driven by the Syrians in the direction of Mount Hermon, along a completely unprotected road. There were few houses. Once in a while we spotted an antiaircraft site or Soviet rocket installations. The drive was eerie. We felt as if we were standing absolutely naked in a town square. Anyone could look down at us from Mount Hermon and even from the smaller hills below it. There was no place to hide...
Expo 74 is devoted to "celebrating tomorrow's fresh new environment" -and environmental planning had to begin at home. A tangle of railroad tracks, trestles, unsightly warehouses and a Skid Road in a 55-acre central city area were cleared for the Expo 74 site. Ramshackle structures on two islands in the Spokane River were also razed, and the polluted river was cleaned up so that now, surging green and foamy through the fair site, it is a major at traction, complete with falls that can be crossed by overhead gondolas...
Along the construction site across from the post office on Mt. Auburn St. is a brightly colored mural painted by children from a Watertown elementary school. Parts of the mural advertise banks and plead for crime and pollution prevention; among them is one which reads "Visit the Art Galleries of Harvard Square...
...Jack Feeley, director of public information for Hancock, said last week that his firm had told Pei only "to create a site that would accomodate space needs and have aesthetic qualities at the same time." And architect Henry Cobb, in Nadel's Esquire article, said he decided himself that since the building "had to be tall, near the size of the Prudential Building...if you're going to be near the size of the Prudential, it's better to be taller, than shorter...
...Business Week story, said that when the soaring Prudential building was erected several blocks away from the Hancock site in 1967, the architectural "form" of the area was already destroyed. "Besides it wasn't a great space, like, say, the Place Vendome," Pei said. "Let's forget about the past as far as Copley Square is concerned and try to make a 20th-century space. We know it can be done. Look at Rockefeller Center...