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...Before it, workmen are completing the paving, preparing a 230-ft.-long reflecting pool to receive its fountains. Electricians are adjusting the lights that will shine on the 130 Belgian apple trees due to burst into bloom at about the day the fair opens. Nearly as vast as the width of Rome's ancient Colosseum, which inspired it, combining dignity, symmetry and an inviting holiday glitter, the pavilion is the finest showcase the U.S. has built abroad at a major world's fair. Spectacular in its daring engineering and inspired in its architecture, it is already recognized...
...coincidence that the launching site for the projectile in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon was distant from Cape Canaveral by only the width of Florida...
...Spanish architects have known full well how to use their best craftsmen. When Philip II commanded Architect Juan Herrera to build the Cathedral of Valladolid in 1585, Herrera designed it to include a lofty screen, or reja, 45 ft. high and 47 ft. wide, that would span the width of the cathedral between the choir and the altar. Work on the wrought-iron grille .was begun about 1668; the gilding was not completed until 1764. In 1920, when the church rearranged the choir, the huge grille was removed...
...University's request is justified, Holloran maintained, because of the improved heating and ventilation facilities planned for the new House. He explained that the living room windows will take up three-quarters of the width of outward wall space...
...less wide. On many of these parking on both sides and two way traffic is permitted. Assuming that the average car is six feet three inches wide, and that it is parked within one foot of the curb, this leaves about thirteen feet for two cars whose combined width is twelve and one half feet to pass...