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...project is a swath of promenades and skyscrapers covering 40 blocks. Designed by Architects Wallace K. Harrison (the new Metropolitan Opera House, Rockefeller Center) and George A. Dudley, and the Albany firm of Blatner and Williams, the mall will be centered around a 2,800-ft. concourse of reflecting pools and fountains stretching from State Street, just in front of the present capitol, to Madison Avenue. Principal building will be the 43-story State Office Tower, which, with seven other office buildings, will house state offices now scattered in nearly 90 separate locations around the city...
...slashing gale capsized a ferry in the Korea Strait, causing 137 deaths, and an avalanche in the mountains of north central Japan entombed 19 persons. The thermometer was playing tricks. While Moscow's temperature was 11°, the mercury plummeted to fantastic depths in a broad swath across the U.S.: -19° in Cleveland, -30° in parts of Kentucky and Tennessee...
Violence & Votes. All faced a difficult decision. Castro no longer cuts a wide swath through Latin America, but local discontents can oft be fanned by Fidelism. Ten nations (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic) hold national elections this year, and this weighed in their deliberations...
...still be said that New University Thought outdistances the recent swath of publications with which it is perenially compared, and that its academic and social potential has already been proven. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions and low standards...
...than in the city's Southwest quadrant, from Capitol Hill to the Waterfront. The area was long a fetid slum (through it once ran bawdy old Four-and-a-Half Street, the capital's last centralized red-light district). Now the builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built by 1966. A new brick marketplace has replaced the flyspecked old Twelfth Street Market...