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...triangular area a mile on each side was being graded and landscaped at a cost of $4,000,000. The old Washington airport (tailed the "Hoover Airport" in pre-New Deal days) was flooded to make a lagoon that would enhance the vista from the War Department. Upwards of 1,000 trucks and bulldozers were on the job. From its start in September until its completion in the spring, the landscaping project will have employed an average of 1,000 men each day. The number of man-hours necessary to beautify the land around the Pentagon was estimated unofficially...
...shall always respect war hereafter. The cost of life, the dreary havoc of comfort and time, are overpaid by the vistas it opens of eternal life, eternal law, reconstructing and uplifting society-breaks up the old horizon and we see through the rifts a wider vista."-R. W. Emerson: Letter to Thomas Carlyle, Sept...
...world was opened to its full length last Sunday. When the great grey curtains separating the new nave from the older crossing and choir were dramatically drawn back, the congregation of 10,000 in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine saw an unbroken 520-ft. vista grander than that of any medieval cathedral...
...Spanish classical dances (the Bolero, the Spanish tango, etc.). Between shows Eduardo locked his buxom young daughter in the dressing room. Tijuana was that kind of a place. After the last show of the day, they went back into the U.S. to join the family at Chula Vista...
...nearby Arlington National Cemetery. The Army scheme would require new roads, new utilities, thousands of new houses in already crowded suburbs in northern Virginia. It would disrupt the east-west axis running from the Capitol through the Washington Monument across the Potomac. It would break up a fine vista...