Word: tinian
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...insistence on exquisite materials and craft that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world to a new kind of architecture--even more extraordinary. It was intended by the German...
...Republican Charles Percy of Illinois, the next chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He boasted afterward that he had smoothed the way for reopening the SALT talks, which offended both Carter and Reagan aides. Percy also told Soviet leaders that he favored the establishment of a Pales tinian state, even if it were led by Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization - a step that is opposed by both Carter and Reagan...
...responsibility for more than 2,200 of them, sweeping in a 4,000-mile arc from American Samoa to Guam, with a 2,000-mile lurch northward to include the naval battleground of Midway. Many were the sites of bitter, bloody victories in World War II: Saipan, Tinian, Kwajalein, Truk...
...Saipanese worry about their top-heavy bureaucracy, but it has not discouraged all initiative -at least on the part of incoming Japanese. They have asked for permission to raise eels and harvest seaweed around Saipan. A more grandiose scheme calls for coffee, rice and frogs to be raised on Tinian, just south of Saipan. Farther away, on Palau, Japanese investors plan to build a $325 million supertanker port if they get permission from local chiefs...
...with much else in the land of rising statistics, the Japanese effort appears to be much bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte, New Guinea and even Siberia...