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...idea of building a tunnel beneath the waters of the English Channel is one which has been debated back and forth between London and Paris for at least a century and a half. But up until a short while ago it seemed an attractive one only to imaginative men with eccentric illusions. Now it appears that after a long and somewhat comical history of failures and brief but unsuccessful forays under the sea, the tunnel may at last find its way from the Cliffs of Dover to the outskirts of Calais...
...British farm, and finally returned to Cambridge and Harvard Law School. A member of Phi Beta Kappa. Davidson has since been engaged in an international law practice and is, at the same time, President of Technical Studies, Inc., which owns twenty-five per cent of the international channel tunnel firm...
Whether stoking her pet peeve ("Women in slacks look like the back end of hacks"), assaulting high fashion ("Their models look as if they had just been blown out of a wind tunnel"), hitting back at the birds ("There ought to be a law that makes pigeon feeding a crime"), or taking a good-natured swipe at the opposite gender ("Man is indeed the weaker sex, worse luck"), Inez Robb interprets the world she roams with an inexhaustible vivacity that can make her competitors' columns read like the telephone book...
...here." In a huge plastic sphere called a Bubblelator, 100 visitors at a time are lifted into the cubistic caverns above, there to shuffle through a labyrinth of 3,600 aluminum cubes, and be exposed by light, sound projection and three-dimensional devices to a dreamworld tunnel of love that involves them "emotionally with the future's opportunities and challenges...
Gruen was off and running. The city was persuaded to spend $10 million to close off Cortland Street, enlarge another on the plaza's perimeter and to provide extra parking facilities. To get commercial traffic out of the way, he built a delivery tunnel beneath the stores. Alongside the tunnel, but burrowing three stories below, he built a 2,000-car garage, provided escalators to whisk the motorist to the plaza level. In the spacious, columned malls and arcades he put gardens and sculptures. To add a town-square touch, he designed sidewalk cafes, planted trees, and put benches...