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...Eventually he got his way, and in 1960 the city gave him $60,000-revenue from subway chewing gum machines. Crisis followed crisis, but in 1971 he persuaded the city to buy the former Astor Library, a beautiful piece of Italian Renaissance Victoriana that had been destined for the wrecker's ball, and lease it to him for $ 1 a year...
Last week St. Louis' city planners got an official O.K. for their proposal to demolish two eleven-story units in Pruitt-lgoe, a mammoth low-rent black housing project located a few blocks from St. Louis' downtown section. Eventually the wrecker's ball will level most of the 31 other buildings...
...Cabinet is already drawing up new laws to replace the War Measures Act, so as to permit more effective action against civil disorders. With its May 1968 upheaval in mind, France has beefed up its police force, and enacted a tough new anti-demonstration measure known as the "anti-wrecker's law." Under the law, police can arrest anyone standing in sight of an unlawful demonstration...
...That Old Wrecker. For the long term, the West Germans feel that the only realistic guarantee for their security lies in a unified Western Europe. At week's end, German officials welcomed that old wrecker of European unity, Charles de Gaulle, to Bonn on his annual visit with somewhat mixed feelings. On the eve of the French President's arrival, Brandt issued a public statement that had an unmistakable meaning for the French. "I would be sorry for every step that we must take without France," said Brandt. "But no one could be satisfied if we stood still...
...Pierson was referring to one of the U.S.'s most imposing and historic industrial landmarks, the Amoskeag millyard, whose 139 red brick buildings line the banks of the Merrimack River for more than a mile in Manchester, N.H. This month the Amoskeag will begin to fall to the wrecker's ball. Ninety of the complex's buildings will be replaced with parking lots, and the moss-hung, mirror-clear canals that still splash over wooden spillways will be filled in to make way for a sewage system...