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...walls were no problem, but the roof defeated me," Fathy recalls. "If I used structural materials, the house became too expensive for the peasants. If I tried to build a vaulted roof using only mud bricks, the whole thing collapsed." The problem was that a vault, like any arch, has structural strength only when it is complete, and the peasants lacked wood to support the arch while it was being built. Still, Fathy remembered that the ancient Egyptians had somehow built sturdy houses of the same material. But, he says, "I feared that the secret had been lost...
...trend toward coeducation had developed--and peaked in 1968 with the admission of women to arch-rivals Yale and Princeton--the sudden and official transformation of Radcliffe women into Harvard women, as if by the stroke of a wand (and not by the vote of the Corporation), seemed imminent...
...predicament of one American war resister became the center of an international incident last week. The scene was the tall, marble Peace Arch just north of Elaine, Wash., which marks the border between the U.S. and Canada. One afternoon a car drove past the arch and its surrounding gardens and rolled to a halt beneath the portico of the U.S. customs building. The customs official on duty routinely noted the car's license number, then punched it into his computer-which is part of the Treasury Emergency Communication System and is tied into the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Anderson knew instantly, from the customs man's request, that he was in trouble. He bolted and ran north toward the Canadian border, past hundreds of startled picnickers in the park beneath the arch. Among the spectators was Peter Trask, a reporter for the Vancouver Sun, who recalled later: "He ran right through the center of the arch, hotly pursued by about half a dozen guys in uniform and plainclothes. He must have been 50 ft. at least into Canada when they pounced on him, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him and frogmarched him back into the States...
West Virginia's Republican Governor Arch Moore, who has been going to the White House as Congressman or Governor since the days of Dwight Eisenhower, came around for the President's courtesy meeting with the Executive Committee of the National Governors' Conference. Moore found himself swept along in congenial confusion through those sacred corridors of power in the White House. He paused at the Oval Office, then went on to the Cabinet Room. There was no agenda and Ford just came into the room with no fanfare and started to shake hands around the big table. "This...