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...abstract mural in Boston's new John F. Kennedy Federal Building is a full 180 sq. ft., cost $25,000, and was simply titled by its painter, Robert Motherwell, New England Elegy. But it did not remain that for long. Up on the wall last week it became everyone's Rorschach. Office workers began to see in the top black band the outlines of a gun stock. Then reports got around that the title was actually The Tragedy of President Kennedy's Death...
...impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated 1,000 lbs. per sq. ft., which is four times as much weight as modern, specially strengthened storage buildings are designed to carry. A few weeks back, a 40-lb. chunk of stone plummeted from the facade to the ground below; now Congressmen and visitors have to walk through a protective wooden tunnel, hardly...
...directors of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Wednesday passed a $346.2 million expansion program, which includes a 2.5 mile expansion of the Harvard Sq. line...
...after day, until the search was abandoned at week's end, the Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force combined to comb a sea corridor that eventually widened to 129,000 sq. miles. At its height, the operation involved 55 planes -eight of them from the Navy carrier Hornet-two Coast Guard cutters, and a destroyer. Merchant ships and airliners were also asked to be on the lookout. They found nothing...
Aerial photos taken over the sparse, seasonally flooded fields of northern Colombia-50 miles east of Monteria in the San Jorge River district-first revealed what even the earliest conquistadors overlooked or could not see: more than 1,400 sq. mi. of intricate clay corrugations, built generally at right angles to the several rivers in the area and standing in bold relief among the numerous waterways. The ridges are as much as five feet high, 20 feet wide, and a mile long. Other ridges run in checkerboard patterns, while a third type extends in long parallels without apparent orientation...