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Still, with a landmass of 8.6 million sq. mi. and a population of 271 million, the Soviet Union would present logistical problems for even the most efficient police organization. The KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful largely because Soviet citizens police one another. Schoolchildren are taught to revere Pavlik Morozov, a 13-year-old who was murdered by enraged villagers during the forced collectivization of farms in the early 1930s after he informed local Communist authorities that his father was sheltering more prosperous peasants. Few Soviets today would be likely to follow young Pavlik's example...
Cicero is a compact community, just 5.5 sq. mi. Its squat houses were mostly built between 1910 and 1940, when thousands of East European immigrants swarmed in to take factory jobs. Today Cicero's tidy yellow-brick houses are owned mainly by the thrifty children and grandchildren of thrifty Poles, Czechs Lithuanians and Yugoslavs...
Anarchy may be too mild a term for the situation in the 75-sq.-mi. triangle, where bandits, remnants of China's pre-1949 Nationalist army, and more than half a dozen "liberation armies" scramble for their share of the $800 million annual opium haul. Last February Thai armed forces ousted the region's biggest opium smuggler, Khun Sa, and his 3,000-member Shan United Army from their luxurious mountain aerie in the border town of Ban Hin Taek. Khun Sa fled back to Burma, and his departure created a power vacuum that lesser warlords...
...advantages are considerable. The 1.1 million-sq.-ft. colossus is not, to be sure, the kind of building to wrap your heart around. The surfeit of white Vermont marble is a bit intimidating. Yet the building fits politely between the clumsily classical Everett Dirksen Senate Office Building and the Federal and Queen Anne-style Sewall-Belmont House and garden, headquarters of the venerable National Woman's Party. The Hart Building's classically well-ordered, box-construction windows, reminiscent of Le Corbusier's famous brise-soleils, or sun screens, harmonize with the forest of Roman columns that flourishes...
...this design flaw aside, the Hart Building is efficiently suited to its unique purposes. The cost adds up to an all-inclusive and defensible $100 per sq. ft., approximately. You can get buildings for less, but the Hart's cost cannot fairly be compared with other office buildings, public or private. There are few Government departments or corporations, for example, that average one boss for every 27 employees, which is the ratio in the Hart Building. The structure, furthermore, shows laudable attention to detail and quality of materials and craftsmanship. Among its features are a 3-in. marble veneer...