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...front portico is held up only by wrought-iron straps, and in three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated 1,000 lbs. per sq. ft., which is four times as much weight as modern, specially strengthened storage buildings are designed to carry. A few weeks back, a 40-lb. chunk of stone plummeted from...
...acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
...ancient sandstone walls have crumbled like cake, and the limited space inside is pinching tightly. The $34 million reconstruction will move parts of the main facade as much as 88 ft. westward, adding 41 acres of badly needed floor space distributed over seven levels from sub-subbasement to attic. Into the new area will fit conference and committee rooms, 109 offices for Congressmen, a pair of auditoriums seating 400 each, cafeterias and dining rooms seating 1,600 people. Many of the new facilities, including those for eating, are designed to handle tourists who now visit the Capitol at a rate...
...resigned in protest against the Diem regime, Saigon in effect had had no representation in Washington. The Vietnamese embassy, a handsome, four-story structure in northwest Washington, had become rundown and dirty. One of Thai's first projects was to have the building cleaned and refurbished from attic to basement...
...sequences are those employing the choruses, one made up of Frogs and the other of a band of religious initiates. Here Munger is most skillful, as he breaks up great masses of potentially monotonous lines and, at one point, turns the stage into a daffy bacchanal, a kind of Attic "Hullabaloo." The choruses run the gamut from barbershop quarter to square dance, singing and chanting and generally cutting...