THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS, The New Yorker, 5/29/95, pp 45-53
ON a warm June day in 1978, William J. LeMessurier, one of the nation's leading structural engineers, received a phone call at his headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from an engineering student in New Jersey. The young man, whose name has been lost in the swirl of subsequent events, said tha