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...brought in $38 million; and the vital east-west Benguela Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought in $1 million a week in transit revenues. Because of the fighting and the flight of white settlers, the railroad is closed. So are the iron mines. The coffee crop, most of it rotting on the bushes, will be one-fifth the size of last year's, and diamond production will also drop by more than 50%. Only oil production remains relatively untouched; 120,000 bbl. per day were...
Such projects, though for "contemporary" buildings-bourses, railroad buildings and other temples of the new technocratic capitalism-have a curiously unreal air. They are paper architecture inhabiting imaginary space. How, one wonders, could they prepare a student for design in the real world? Yet they did, for the "real world" of 19th century French architecture was very different from today's. To us, architecture means anything built, from a cot tage to a town. But in France, l'architecture was the design of large public buildings, usually erected by the state...
...Johnny Appleseed, importing shade trees, fruits and vegetables, which he shared with the en tire countryside. He cultivated the arts as well: diocesan schools taught not only languages, history and mathematics but also music as a regular part of the cur riculum. He even sponsored material progress: when the railroad threatened to bypass Santa Fe, Lamy joined a group to raise capital for a spur...
...other side of the railroad tracks, the working classes and business interests occasionally become political bedfellows. The four Independents on the council all come from working class neighborhoods, and yet they are also the only councilors to sympathize with the developers and other business interests. Industry, construction and commerical development bring jobs and lower taxes. For people more interested in keeping their paychecks than keeping a few tourists out, this conservative alignment makes good sense. Bear these alignments in mind when checking out some of the key issues in Cambridge...
...most important new information in Coup d'Etat comes from the analysis of the "tramp photographs" Dick Gregory made famous. The Book Depository from which Kennedy was shot adjoins a railroad yard where three tramps were apprehended in an apparently locked boxcar just after the assassination. Photographs of these tramps, who were arrested, and then released on FBI orders, show that one of the tramps looks very much like Hunt, another like fellow Watergater Frank Sturgis, and the third like Oswald. Canfield and Weberman show convincingly through height and feature comparison that two of the tramps really are Hunt...