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...President's war against poverty took shape and substance last week. In St. Petersburg, Fla., the first regular class of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), the domestic version of the Peace Corps, graduated. And in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, 45 miles west of Baltimore, the first Job Corps training camp was officially opened...
Lady Bird Johnson, in St. Petersburg to give diplomas to the eleven men and eight women of VISTA'S graduating class, explained the idea behind the organization. Said she: "America is many things. But above all, more than any nation in the history of man, ever since the first frontiersman picked up his musket to help protect a neighbor, we have been a nation of volunteers. We have been a land in which the individual says, 'My neighbor needs me. I will do something.' " After the ceremony, Lady Bird toured the nearby Negro communities of Ridgecrest...
Clearly, such unsettling prospects would not even be countenanced in the Krernlin were it not for yet a grimmer vista already looming. That vista is a continuing turnabout in the Soviet growth rate, whose longtime double-figure performances led Nikita Khrushchev as recently as 1961 to assure the world that the U.S.S.R. would over take the U.S. by 1970 as the world's mightiest economy. It has been slowing down ever since. Last week Moscow reported that industrial output grew at 7.1%, a sizable figure for a mature economy but the lowest in Russia since 1946. And each year...
Yamasaki began with an awkward lot, bisected by Nicollet Avenue, scheduled to become a pedestrian mall ending in a park. Instead of obstructing the vista, Yamasaki resolved to enhance it. But how? He considered lifting the structure on stilts ("It would have been like going through a tunnel"), putting in an archway ("But that would have cut the building up"), moving it off to one side ("Then the building would not have been visible from Nicollet Avenue, and we had a beautiful location...
...design is more an appreciation of a natural site than a monument of masonry. Visitors who will go there cannot avoid pondering the powerful poetry of the vista toward the capital. It was one of Kennedy's favorites. Some time before his death, he and a friend stood where he now is buried. Remarked the late President: "I could stay here forever." That came true too suddenly, but his observation has only enhanced his resting place...