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...Architect Richard Neutra pleaded for the preservation of the city's charm. "The engineers can solve all of Venice's problems if the money is found," he said. "But what must never be forgotten is that Venice is a 'psychotop'-a place where you anchor your soul." France's famed Le Corbusier sounded the same note in a letter to the mayor. "Venice must be declared a sacred city," wrote Corbu. "Venice, without roads, is a city where the human nervous system can regain its equilibrium and man's heart open itself to serenity...
...wearing brass-trimmed bandoleers, with curved, wide-bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone who tries to restore it is an enemy...
...pressed a lever, and psss-CHUNK! -a pile driver began to hammer in the first pile for a 200-ft. observation tower, the highest structure at the New York World's Fair 1964-65, and part of New-York State's elegant $5,000.000 pavilion, designed by Architect Philip Johnson. The fair, declared the Governor, was going to be a vast success, visited by 70 million people, and yielding "lasting benefits as a magnificent showcase...
...accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said, "and I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.'' She did indeed live in Pennsylvania for a while, but it was in upper-crust Bucks County, with her divorced mother and stepfather. "He's an architect." College? Well. no. "College was just impossible." So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling agency...
...year-old architect also traces an influence to Rome at the time of Da Vinci and Michelangelo, which, he says, knew the secret of creating beauty in a crowded city...