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...construction of the Channel Tunnel linking France and England; in Bosham, England. His leadership helped the project survive a series of political and financial crises before the 50-km tunnel finally opened in 1994. DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered an elegant interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Best known for the light wood Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 U.S. states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture?designing buildings to blend...
...arriving in Tokyo station!" announced the conductor of an 1874 Sharp, Stewart & Co. locomotive chugging through the museum grounds. For a moment, it was easy to believe him?not least because we were staring at a onetime icon of the Japanese capital, Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel. Or its lobby, at any rate. Built in 1923 near Tokyo's palace, the hotel was torn down in 1965?but not before preservationists managed to dismantle and move a portion to the museum. Visitors can enter the turf stone and brick remains, restored to include a coffee shop, replete with original...
Mentioning such past American innovations as the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane prototypes, the moon-shot program of John F. Kennedy ’40, also a former Crimson editor, and microchip technology, Kerry said he would lift current administrative restrictions on embryonic stem cell research—and, in perhaps his deftest segue, tied this into the convention’s theme of an optimistic party on the brink...
Combat has always been a way for young Americans to define themselves as a generation. Rolling Stone's Evan Wright was embedded with a Marine reconnaissance unit, and his Generation Kill (Putnam; 354 pages) is a pungently written combat narrative and a close-range study of a bunch of twentysomething warriors trying to get a handle on who they are. At times they come across as cynical adrenaline junkies: "If the dominant mythology of [Vietnam] turns on a generation's loss of innocence," Wright observes, "these young men entered Iraq predisposed toward the idea that...
...RETIRED. MAJOR GENERAL EDWARD MECHENBIER, 62, the last Vietnam prisoner of war still flying for the U.S. military; at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, Mechenbier spent six years in captivity in the so-called Hanoi Hilton, alongside John McCain, now a U.S. Senator. He hung up his wings upon reaching the Air Force's mandatory retirement age: "When you're getting run out of town on a rail, get in front and make it look like a parade," he said at a ceremony in his honor...