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...least faced up to its responsibilities. As moral leader and chief architect of the hemispheric security system, it could no longer afford such lazy concepts as "automatic" recognition. Neither could it afford to wreck the hemispheric system by a return to the days of the Big Stick. Between the two extremes, by collective action with its neighbors, the solution might be found...
...things go nowadays one has only a choice of nightmares. Shall it be the old, careless urban nightmare of post-Civil War New York ... or shall it be the new nightmare, a great superblock, quiet, orderly, self-contained, but designed as if the fabulous innkeeper Procrustes had turned architect-a nightmare not of caprice and self-centered individualism but of impersonal regimentation, apparently for people who have no identity but the serial numbers of their Social Security cards...
...headquarters in Paris, disillusioned staffers were telling each other that the famed French architect, Le Corbusier, now hard at work on plans for the U.N. buildings in New York City, was including special corridors for nations that wanted to by-pass an issue...
...making it more than double its present size. Items: spacious (25-by-21-ft.) rooms with two baths and a balcony, a roof swimming pool with a beach of washable rubber-composition sand. On the six city blocks of empty land that surround the present building, Geddes and Architect Paul Williams, who is collaborating on the plan, will build 500 bungalows connected by a tunnel system to the hotel room service...
Last week it seemed likely that the President would not be able to move back into the White House until next fall. The best guess as to the cost of reconstruction, under the supervision of White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow: from...