“Air conditioned Tower of Babel, anchored on gold, gall and guts,” the author James Street wrote of it. “An adolescent Amazon with a little gland trouble.”
“It is plain Simon-pure American inspiration,” the American Magazine said of it.
It “has a strength and power and rude majesty all its own,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said. “In time, perhaps, it will achieve greatness.”
What arrests the visiting journalist, what does he sense about Houston that residents often fail to feel?
Let us see.
President John F. Kennedy standing beside a full-scale model of the Apollo lunar landing vehicle, which was shown for the first time during the President’s inspection of the Manned Spacecraft Center in September, 1962.
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City Seal
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