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...dead of winter last January, the City of Cambridge installed brand new steel grates over windows and heating vents at a municipally-owned parking garage in Central Square to keep out unwanted homeless people and vandals. The measure soon won widespread support from local businessmen and patrons...
...insure the safety of students who felt threatened by the vagrants at the entrance of their dining hall, the masters of Leverett installed the steel barriers outside the dormitory. But when several homeless men began sticking their arms and legs through the metal grates in search of warmth, the uproar on campus attracted both the attention of the national media and the ire of America...
...considers the addition of the Missouri to the fleet a bargain as well. Fink points out that you'd get little more than a frigate for the money today and adds that to duplicate her would be impossible. "You'd have to put back a piece of the American steel business and part of the armaments industry that don't exist anymore." Critics argue that Mighty Mo should have been allowed to disappear also. Some naval tacticians say she's almost as outdated as the empty gun emplacements that line the headlands around the Golden Gate Bridge, ghostly sentinels...
...years of heedless American growth, cars multiplied and the great fast-food empires were born: McDonald's, Tastee Freez, Jack-in-the-Box, Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Mister Donut, Pizza Hut, Burger Chef. The architecture that resulted was a sort of Sunbelt peasant modernism, simple constructivist cartoons in steel and glass, designed to catch the attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic A-frames were slapped onto plain boxes; McDonald's golden arches never supported anything. The "modernism" of the fast-food stands was superficial set design, not unlike today...
Less than 24 hours after South Africa's commando raid last week, it was business as usual at the whitewashed single-story headquarters of the African National Congress in downtown Lusaka. An A.N.C. official glanced only casually at visitors as they passed through the half-open steel gate. Within the compound, Oliver Tambo, 68, a lawyer and political activist who became acting president of the organization in 1967, sat inside a cramped and sparsely furnished office, drafting a press statement about the attack. None of the 20 or so staffers on hand seemed unduly alarmed by the raid. "We live...