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...Everyone wants to go to the mecca of the east--the six square miles of Cambridge," said Jean Le Vaux, the president of LeVaux Realty...
...have put many an arrow into the rumps of this fellow's medieval predecessors. The most famous of his kind, France's devious voluptuary Nicolas Fouquet, was clapped into jail by Louis XIV, who rightly smelled a rat when he visited Fouquet's magnificent Vaux-le-Vicomte, a château that put the Sun King's palaces to shame. King Louis healed the insult by building Versailles...
Embree wasn't the only Harvard thinclad to place in Saturday's sundrenched classic. "Super Foot" John McCulloh, Harvard track's answer to Jim Rice, placed third in the college division of the high jump behind Allen of Columbia and Vaux of Maryland with a height...
Waste Space. Except, fortunately, in Central Park: there, Olmsted and Vaux had a free hand. They won it with great difficulty against a phalanx of businessmen and politicos who could see no point in creating such "waste space" in Manhattan. Olmsted's tenacity was such that when his thigh was broken in three places by a carriage accident, he insisted on being carried round the park in a litter while he issued his orders to the foremen and struggled to complete, in grass and trees, his "gallery of mental pictures." Though he disapproved of such grand formal gardens...
...Park went to one Winston Buzby in 1898, and the present infestation of buildings and ugly monuments was no part of Olmsted's plan. Today, the character of Central Park is stretched to its elastic limit. But it still survives, and Olmsted's words to his partner Vaux (who got dispirited sometimes) still speak for many New Yorkers: "I have none of your feelings of nauseousness about the park. There is no other place in the world that is as much home to me. I love it all through, and all the more for the trials...