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Trending News.This is Foxconn's first factory in the United States. The Taiwan-based electronics giant is a major assembler for Apple. The Wisconsin factory will be devoted to high-definition flat-screen TVs.The new plant is, the Associated Press points out, just 30 miles away from Harley-Davidson, which announced this week that it would move production of some of its motorcycles overseas in order to avoid new tariffs. The president, who about the announcement, addressed Harley-Davidson from the podium at Foxconn.'
We want to tell, by the way, Harley-Davidson, please build those beautiful motorcycles in the USA, please, okay? Don't get cute with us. Don't get cute,' Mr. Trump admonished.During his speech, Mr.
Trump also praised Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy as 'very special' and 'highly respected' in light of Wednesday. 'We'll be picking somebody and we'll hopefully be making you very proud,' Mr. Trump said of his to the nation's highest court.The president also took the opportunity to talk about his re-election campaign, telling the audience that his slogan, 'Make America great again' is going to be changed to 'Keep America great.' He also railed against the 'elite.' 'These people, they call them 'the elite,' these people, I look at them - I say, 'That's elite?' We got more money. We got more brains.
We got better houses, apartments. We got nicer boats,' Mr. Trump exclaimed. 'We're smarter than they are, and they say, 'the elite.' We're the elite. You're the elite.' The president was joined by Secretary Treasury Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.House Speaker Paul Ryan, who spoke at the event before Mr.
Trump, celebrated the opening of the plant.' Jobs are being created in America, wages are going up, and Wisconsin is leading this story,' he said. 'This story right here of Foxconn— it's the most vivid picture of what a strong and healthy economy looks like.'
From This Story Related ReadsNext month marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Houston Astrodome, one of many wonders once dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World. Before Star Wars and “Star Trek,” there were Sputnik, John Glenn and the Jetsons, back when every elementary school cafeteria was filled with metal lunchboxes painted with astronauts and rocket ships.
Back when we all believed technology could save us.The idea of a domed stadium wasn’t new, but it took Judge Roy Hofheinz, a larger-than-life Houston booster, to make it happen. He sweet-talked and strong-armed the city fathers until in 1962 they found themselves—all Brylcreem and two-button suits, Stetsons and heavy shoes—breaking ground on the new home of football’s Oilers and baseball’s Colt 45s not with shovels but with six-guns.When the building opened, three years later, the renamed Astros beat the Yankees in an exhibition game.
It was April 9, 1965. Mickey Mantle hit major-league history’s first indoor home run, but it was the building people talked about. It was everything they said it would be. But it was not then, and is not now, very beautiful.On opening day in 1965, the Astrodome hosted an exhibition game between the Houston Astros and New York Yankees to a sold-out crowd.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife were in attendance.(William Bird Postcard Collection)It wasn’t the curve and counter-curve of Googie-style coffee shops, of ’50s spaceships and San Fernando car washes. Nor was it Eero Saarinen’s lighter-than-air TWA terminal at JFK. Except for its scale, the Astrodome was a shape out of the past, a Colosseum on the bayou.It was twice as large as any single enclosure ever built before. The immense greenhouse ceiling was a marvel, like the great train sheds of Victorian Europe—but once the Astros outfielders started losing fly balls in the glare, the transparent ceiling was painted over. Which meant the grass died, which meant “AstroTurf” had to be invented.
A year later it was America’s third most-visited man-made attraction after the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Rushmore. Between innings the grounds crew wore spacesuits and helmets and cleaned the diamond with vacuums.Elvis filled the place more than once. Everyone from Evel Knievel and Muhammad Ali to Billy Graham and the Supremes had their names on the marquee. Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King fought the “Battle of the Sexes” here in 1973 (women won), and Nolan Ryan threw one of his seven no-hitters under that unlikely ceiling. Refugees from Katrina washed up here in the hurricane summer of 2005. Like Ellis Island, and not without controversy, it briefly held, housed, then redistributed thousands of them.By then it was long since clear that the Astrodome was an anachronism.
Its replacement since 2002, a gigantic pole barn now called NRG Stadium—get it?—was built beside it, so close that each subtracts from the other in a way every architecture student but no developer or politician understands.Proposals float up, weightless, to repurpose the emptied Astrodome, reclaim its greatness. No one pulls the trigger.
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The Astrodome isn’t saved—but somehow it isn’t gone. It’s the perfect avatar of its time, big enough to hold our space age optimism and allay our space age fears.When the time comes, all you can do is abandon it.
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