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Vice Chancellor since 1957, "Uncle Ludwig" was the architect of the nation's postwar prosperity and by far the Christian Democratic Union's best vote-getter. But Chancellor Adenauer, who hates to give way after 14 years in power, and hates even more to give way to Erhard, thought he could stall off Erhard's formal appointment. At a party meeting last week, Adenauer tried to talk about everything but his successor. Grumpily, Adenauer declared that he could not tolerate a Chancellor-designate "looking over my shoulder" in the remaining months before his promised fall retirement...
...million project will be financed by the city of Albany, which will issue long-term bonds, while the state will lease the buildings from the city until the bonds have been paid off. "This is straightforward architecture," says Architect Dudley. "It will have a quality of monumentality, which you can't afford to use in New York City, for example, where the land cost is so high and the life expectancy of a building is only 15 to 20 years...
...understand this is the largest government project of its kind anywhere in the country," says Architect Harrison. "It's certainly going to be one of the few places in the world where that American invention, the skyscraper, is given its proper place in relation to the buildings around...
...share Hughes' nostalgia for the days of hope in early 1953 to admire and value his book. His narrative has the fascination of testimony, and his argument is much more than a plea for a sympathetic judgment of Eisenhower (though it is certainly that). The inertia that humbled the architect of D-Day is currently blocking the efforts of his successor on every front, as Hughes ends by noting. He offers the defeat of his Eisenhower as a warning
...Worry. Issues seemed somehow remote. Said Atlanta Journal Editor Jack Spalding: "People aren't concerned about foreign aid. What the hell, it's out of their hands." Said a San Francisco architect: "As far as De Gaulle and the Common Market are concerned, I tend to shrug my shoulders and hope it will work itself out somehow. And I don't much care whether they waste money on the TFX in Seattle or somewhere else." Michigan's Republican Representative Gerald Ford, chairman of the House G.O.P. Conference, says he has received only three letters advocating...