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Dowd's job often is not particularly taxing, and his private quarters at the site are equipped with a bed and a refrigerator. He is primarily a liaison man between the contractor and the team of operating engineers. By his definition he is a "labor mediator." Paul Richards, head of New York State's building chapter of Associated General Contractors of America, sees Dowd's job in a slightly different way. Says he: "The 'master mechanic' is nothing but a walking steward, and I think if you look at other major projects in New York...
...tiny enclave of Cabinda, the site of Angola's newly-discovered oil reserves and the rebel groups' second front, no one speaks of the war, except perhaps twice a year, when the explosion of a land mine is reported, an often as not killing civilians rather than military personnel...
That over, Nixon headed west for Hawaii-a symbolic site for a meeting with Japan's new Premier Kakuei Tanaka. Before the meeting began, he attended another grand party at the Kahala home of Clare Boothe Luce, where more than 600 business, civic and political leaders of Hawaii enjoyed a mixed buffet of sushi, sashimi, shrimp, king crab and smoked salmon. Everyone laughed when Nixon declared: "This is not a political affair...
...rhomboid-shaped, mirror-walled building, it rises 60 stories from a site on Copley Square and looms over the elegant, residential Back Bay district. As soon as the project was announced in 1967, local architects attacked it as a disfiguration of the whole area. The building's size-1.6 million sq. ft. of office space-seemed sure to destroy the charm and intimate scale of Copley Square, formed mainly by Charles McKim's stately, neo-Renaissance Public Library and H.H. Richardson's Romanesque Trinity Church. Boston officials urged Hancock to reconsider its plans, but the company threatened...
...years their town's new image as Convention City will pull in large nonpolitical conventions at which visitors will spend enough to make up for this year's losses. But officials of some other cities are skeptical. San Diego, which was abruptly dropped last spring as the site of the Republican Convention, celebrated its loss with a ten-day music and dance festival that concluded last week...