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...architecture department, said, "Technology may not be the triumph we thought it would be. More than ever, we need the warm touch of the human hand." Maki studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., as well as at Harvard, which he frequently visits. The interior of his new Keio University library has a richness of architectural effects-the views, the progression of spaces, the staircase, furniture that doubles as sculpture-that are more palatial than academic but echo traditional Japanese motives. The most unabashedly Japanese of Maki's designs to date, however...
...proposal, which was advanced by right-wing Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, empowers the police to determine both the extent and the source of violence. It also effectively means that those who remain in the midst of a turbulent protest will be considered guilty unless they can prove their innocence...
...everything James Watt could have hoped for in a July 4th, and more. While the Interior Secretary watched from the roof of his offices a few hundred yards away, his celebrated choice for the capital's Independence Day concert, Wayne Newton, 41, hauled his sequined Las Vegas act out onto the Washington Mall. (One local radio station suggested that a two-drink minimum be imposed to make the entertainer feel more at home.) Doffing a headdress that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with...
...more modern times, probably no one's tongue cut deeper than that of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, Harold Ickes. The Secretary accused Huey Long of having "halitosis of the intellect," but saved his sharpest darts for Thomas E. Dewey. When the New York Governor announced for the presidency, Ickes commented that "Dewey has thrown his diaper into the ring," and steadfastly refused to listen to Dewey's speeches because, he explained, "I have a baby...
...puckish caller once asked Interior Secretary James Watt during a radio talk show whether his baldness was caused by acid rain. Watt laughed off the wisecrack, as well he might. In spite of rising concern in the Northeast and Canada, Administration spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that nothing could really be done about acid rain and the industry-produced sulfur emissions allegedly behind them until all the scientific facts were in. Suddenly last week, however, facts came raining down like a summer squall, in effect making further scientific debate on what mainly causes the problem all but irrelevant...