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Much of the barbed wire is gone, and the ugly grey cinder blocks are rapidly giving way to trim slabs of concrete. Just a few feet away, workmen are busily dismantling the forbidding old wooden watchtowers and replacing them with neat rectangular structures that look more like mountaintop tourist lookouts than machine-gun nests. At first glance, the scene is strangely placid; Western visitors can hardly believe that they are at the edge of Berlin's infamous Wall...
Besides, the passage of time has wrought on the building indignities that Wright never foresaw. The ingenious, cantilevered foundations, which he designed to support the building on the gooey soil beneath it, proved trim enough to see the Imperial through the 1923 earthquake. But in the past four decades, as the water level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel...
...belief that high school driver-education courses produce safer drivers is so sacredly held that insurance companies trim premiums for motorists who have taken them. That gospel was challenged last week by University of California Psychologist Frederick L. McGuire. "There is no evidence," McGuire told a session of the National Safety Congress in Chicago, "that driver education influences accident frequency or severity...
...Jersey's Charles Joelson was brushed aside when he proposed a "do-it-yourself economy kit" with which each Congressman would trim 5% from federal projects in his own district. Michigan's Martha Griffiths captured the mood perfectly when she volunteered: "If the rest of you want to cut something out of your districts, I'll be glad to help." No one took up the offer. Silvio Conte of Massachusetts pointed to the "Capitol police falling all over themselves, elevator operators running automatic elevators." Even Arizona's John Rhodes, who as chairman of the House Republican...
These days, it seems, nobody wants to look like Hank Bauer except Hank Bauer. Certainly not Richard Nixon: despite a hereditary sparseness in front, his coiffure now rolls luxuriantly down the neck and trespasses on the ears. And certainly, certainly not Bobby Kennedy, who was once a neat trim but who lately resembles a sheep dog-or maybe a sheep. Presumably long hair is now a political asset, although Washington's most notorious tousle, Everett Dirksen, declines comment as "below the pale." Dirksen is at least known to have visited his barber before the 1952 Republican Convention, at which...