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Besides, the passage of time has wrought on the building indignities that Wright never foresaw. The ingenious, cantilevered foundations, which he designed to support the building on the gooey soil beneath it, proved trim enough to see the Imperial through the 1923 earthquake. But in the past four decades, as the water level has fallen, the structure has settled 3 ft. 7 in. Cracks have appeared in walls and ceilings, and postwar smog has corroded the soft green lava rock used by Wright for the building's fantastic ornamentation. Concluded one recent visitor, Novelist Anthony West: the hotel...
Funk believed it was preferable for a person to obtain his daily requirement of vitamins from natural foodstuffs. "I get the vitamins I need from eating the right foods," he once said, and his fitness attested to the claim. Nonetheless, he maintained that such factors as bad soil and poor cooking made artificial vitamins not only necessary but "sometimes indispensable...
Loosened Purse Strings. From Surveyor's success has come man's first detailed knowledge of the consistency and chemical makeup of lunar soil, data and pictures that will influence the choice of the first astronaut landing site, and confirmation that the soft-landing system of the Apollo lunar module-similar to Surveyor's-is well conceived and workable...
...York City, Southern writers and editors never seem to adjust. They may not be able to go home again, as Thom as Wolfe once warned, but they resist making a home of New York. Their work, too, stands apart. To their writ ing, they bring a closeness to the soil, an abiding sense of tradition, a refreshing wonderment at the city's delights along with a certain wariness. All these qualities are much in evidence in two new books by transplanted Southerners, North Toward Home by Willie Morris, and A Pride of Prejudices by Vermont Royster...
...conditions have now been met. His third wife, Empress Farah, gave birth to Crown Prince Reza seven years ago. The Shah himself launched an ambitious development program that has brought industry and prosperity to his nation, and his land reform has turned 15 million peasants into independent farmers whose soil is now their...