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...remaining access routes to the West. West Berliners were also nervous at the chance that hordes of restive East Germans might choose the Wall's anniversary as an occasion for a mass escape attempt through the 95 miles of concrete, barbed wire and death strips that surround the western half of the city...
...Verlaan's assistants was a sculptor named Hendrik Vreeling. Last winter he began to think about the gargoyles that Verlaan had planned to surround the steeple at the 230-foot mark. Why not, Vreeling suggested, have a little fun with the job by imitating the medieval builders and carving some unconventional gargoyles? Great idea, replied Verlaan. He suggested something "eternal"-comic strip characters, perhaps. The delighted sculptor went off to work, within three months hacked out 23 stone figures copied from the cartoons of Hollywood's Walt Disney and from a popular Dutch cartoonist named Maarten Toonder. Among...
Scattered Sculpture. So far, $230 million worth of construction has been approved under this system-meaning that Philadelphia will surround its new buildings with more than $2,000,000 worth of art. Late last year, the Federal Housing Administration amended its rules to permit guarantee of loans that included the fine-arts provision. Last week ground was broken for the first major project to be financed by FHA under the new provision -a $40 million redevelopment of Philadelphia's shabby Society Hill section. At the 1% rate, Contractors Webb & Knapp and Chief Architect I.M. Pei will have a handsome...
...Revere, and James Otis. The Old South Meeting House and the Old State House on Washington St. also figured significantly in the pre-revolutionary period and exhibit the evidences of colonial insurrection. Faneuil Hall, in Faneuil Sq. is worth visiting both for the starting variety of produce markets which surround it, and for its historical interest as the scene of innumerable rabble-rousing tirades against the British by such stalwarts as old Samuel Adams. If you can follow the Freedom Trail markers, you will be guided also to the Site of the Boston Massacre, King's Chapel, the Home...
Preaching the Bible. Michael Delamarian is not the only Biblical preacher to find newer and bigger congregations in the suburbs. Across the U.S., in working-class townships and bedroom communities that surround the great industrial cities, fundamentalist religion-in tiny, independent churches that feature emotion-laden sermons and preach a faith based upon an unerring Bible-is beginning to threaten the traditional suburban hegemony of the mainstream Protestant denominations...