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...again and again. BUILDING 5, DOCKS 0 was the headline in the Mobile Register. And no wonder: constructed by the WPA in the 1930s, the building, all 1 million bricks of it, boasted such features as walls up to 20-in. thick and 72 support pillars of reinforced steel. The frustrated wreckers swore that they could blow the building clear across the Mobile River if they could use heavier explosive charges; city officials replied that they might take half the town with...
...downtown patch of rail sidings and weeds is now a nearly complete 77-acre complex of gleaming pavilions, an aerial tramway, a fabric-covered amphitheater and a quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which with its gilded-globe top looks like the world's only 266-ft. microphone. Says Fair President S.H. ("Bo") Roberts: "This is going to be a bench mark. We will think of Knoxville before and Knoxville after...
...some areas, however, nothing seems to work. In Pittsburgh, the steel industry and its suppliers have been badly hit by the recession. Unemployment in some neighboring communities like Butler is up as high as 18%, leaving the area almost bereft of buyers. Paul Murphy, an agent for Century 21 in suburban Pittsburgh, reports that many people would like to leave the region to look for new jobs elsewhere, but can find no buyers for their houses...
...that they must continue to wrestle with the cassocked and habited specters of their youth. Instead, these veterans of Catholic schooling are following the first law of creation: write what you know. The nuns and priests of a generation ago impressed their small charges more than they realized. The steel-edged rulers with which they whacked so many knuckles are being raised against them. The mystery of faith has become a frightening conundrum, and the Baltimore Catechism a joke book. And so it has come to pass: the children of Sister Mary Ignatius have taken their revenge-by Richard Corliss
...small bound feet. People riding bicycles and pulling handdrawn carts fill the streets. An old man passes carrying a straw basket of produce on the back of his bicycle. Another man pulls concrete blocks in a hand-cart. Not permitted to own cars, individual Chinese haul everything from steel and logs to their crippled grandmothers by hand-cart and by bicycle through the streets...