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...Architect of Union. Lleras started out as a reporter for Bogota's prestigious El Tiempo, but soon gravitated to politics. At the age of 24, he was El Tiempo's editor in chief; two years later, at 26, he had become speaker of the Chamber of Deputies; by age 30, he was Minister of the Interior. In 1945, when President Alfonso Lopez resigned in a dispute with Congress, Lleras. by then Foreign Minister, was tapped to serve out the term.His next job was in Washington, as head of the ineffectual Pan American Union. During seven years, Lleras, almost...
Almost as soon as the station was finished, the Pennsylvania Railroad began to tinker with Architect Charles McKim 's open spaciousness. Information desks were placed in the middle of the huge halls. Eventually, to get more revenue for the railroad, advertising signs with blinking lights were hung from the walls, stainless steel booths and shops appeared, new cars were spotlighted on revolving turn tables. The inside of Penn Station became what Lewis Mumford calls "a vast electronic jukebox...
After it was over, Britain's Lord Taylor, a bluff Labor Party peer and an architect of the British National Health Service, last week gave Saskatchewan a doctor's order. "This province has had a major operation," said he. "I prescribe for it absolute rest." The major operation was the settlement of the bitter, 22-day strike of Saskatchewan's doctors, who closed their offices rather than practice under the Socialist government's new compulsory medical insurance scheme...
...stonework, suggests the architecture and masonry of the Romanesque cathedral. The Jewish chapel is housed within a round wooden screen from which all structural elements have been eliminated. This, says Netsch, goes back to the ancient tents of the wandering Tribes of Israel, for each tent created, in architect talk, a "non-structural space...
...pride of Holland's city of Arnhem is a sturdy 11th century Gothic structure called the Eusebius Church. Badly damaged during World War II, this Dutch Reformed church has gradually been rebuilt in strict accordance to medieval style. But when Architect Theo Verlaan came along to rebuild the steeple, things changed fast...