Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOTEL SURGE will lure more note's into $1.5 billion yearly business. Salt Lake City's rich, old (since 1911") Hotel Utah will soon complete West's biggest (154 units), costliest (about $3.5 million) motel within two blocks of hotel. Features: four plush "penthouses," swimming pool, underground auditorium with capacity...
...most influential Communist in the Western Hemisphere, Brazil's Luis Carlos Prestes, last week won the right to reappear in public. A Rio judge struck down a warrant for Prestes' "preventive" arrest, which has kept him underground for ten years. This week Prestes is supposed to come out of hiding and sign the judge's terms for his conditional freedom (e.g., he must report twice a month) while he awaits trial-months hence, if ever-on charges of sedition...
Fortnight ago, from underground, Prestes proclaimed a popular-front "alliance of all national forces in the fight against North American imperialism," and promised an "enthusiastic campaign" for the election of all "nationalist democratic candidates" in October's congressional elections. The thought of Prestes' votes whetted political thirsts in Congress; five days later the judge who has jurisdiction over Prestes' case decided that the Communist leader "does not intend to flee from application of the penal law," and revoked the arrest order. Above ground, Prestes will probably strive for re-establishment of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Russia, legality...
Clergymen, politicians, resistance heroes came forward to defend Pastor Mathiot. Said Charles Westphal, vice president of the French Protestant Federation and a veteran of the wartime French underground: "Mathiot's action is justified by the prevalence of torture in Algeria ... He obeyed the highest moral law there is. His act is symptomatic of the great unrest in French consciences today." Other signs of unrest: the French Reformed Church, as well as the Catholic Church, has repeatedly drawn attention to abuses in Algeria. Speaking not only against excessive use of violence there but against bitter anti-Algerian propaganda at home...
...natural amphitheater contours as the setting for a lofty, circular building. Leaving eleven giant willows in place, he resolved to build the pavilion over them, and include a wide interior balcony to give added area for exhibitions. He also decided to snuggle a circular, 1,150-seat auditorium half underground in the shoulder rise of the hill. "To frame and enclose such a huge space is an opportunity that doesn't come often to an architect," says Ed Stone. "Neither does the problem of spanning 350 feet. Why, you could put the University of Arkansas' football field...