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Although two good crop years and a record tourist influx have contributed to the boom, it would have been impossible without a revival of confidence in Mexican business circles. Chief architect of the confidence has been hardheaded Treasury Secretary Antonio Carrillo Flores, whose policy of reduced government intervention in business slowed down and then reversed the flight of capital that resulted from post-devaluation jitters in 1954. Nobody knows better than Economist Carrillo Flores that there are still bad spots in the Mexican economy. Antiquated labor laws hamper development of the textile industry, for example, and Mexican agriculture is still...
...tallest skyscraper in France today is in the cathedral town of Amiens, a 25-story tower made of reinforced concrete, named for Architect Auguste Ferret. Far from pointing to the building with pride, the people of Amiens have scornfully dubbed it La Chandelle (The Candle). To the French government, which owns it, the Perret Tower has become a national scandal. Abuilding since 1949, it is still unfinished inside, already 30 months behind schedule and 132 million francs over its original 93-million-franc estimate. Last week the French government offered the tower to private investors. Price: one-fifth its cost...
...tower's troubles date back almost to the day the designs were finished by the late, famed Architect Perret. In digging the foundations, workmen uncovered a subterranean river, which had to be diverted from its course. As work progressed it turned out that the city water pressure was too low to force water above the 20th story. Then someone figured out that the building's two seven-passenger elevators would take nearly two hours to get the building's 350 prospective tenants to work...
Chapin started out to become an architect (University of Pennsylvania '33), but taught himself to draw maps when the building business dried up during the Depression. He still finds time to design an occasional house, including his own at Sharon, Conn. "Bob Chapin is far more than a cartographer," says Houghton Mifflin's Textbook Editor William E. Spaulding. "He approaches the job of illustrating in the spirit of a constructive and imaginative teacher...
...edict merely makes Amrita and Hari hold hands tighter in the corridors of the radio station. What finally loosens the young lovers' grip, and how, takes up the rest of this first novel. It also gives 28-year-old Novelist R. Prawer Jhabvala, Polish wife of a Hindu architect and a resident of India for the past five years, her chance to fashion a deft comedy of manners and values. Allowing for an Indian sea change, her moral is essentially Herman Wouk's-that one's cultural heritage is not a vise but a virtue...