Word: adds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concrete & Paper Fans. Minoru Yamasaki's $1,172,000 conference building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is in love both with Western technology and Oriental refinement. His crisp little temple of talk, set beside a reflecting pool, owes a lot to the Taj Mahal, something to Japanese paper fans, and most of all to modern engineering in glass and concrete. Yamasaki puts precision over ornamentation and lets...
...does not spend all his time in the classroom. Preparation for talks and drawing up assignments take up time away from school. Classroom time includes observation or leading question periods. These different activities may add up to the maximum of ten hours, but the amount of time spent varies...
Elsewhere, Democrats nibbled away at isolated Republican districts to add to the gains they started with last month's Maine election. In New York they picked up a seat apiece in the normal Republican strongholds of Buffalo and Schenectady; in Kentucky's Third District (Louisville) State Legislator Frank W. Burke, 38, defeated John M. Robsion, who went to Washington six years ago on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails...
...confided to an English newspaperman that if there was to be any change in Jordan's status, Israel would like to see the west bank of the Jordan River demilitarized and guarded by U.N. troops. In the course of a Knesset debate last week, Ben-Gurion would only add: "All President Nasser knows and needs to know about Israel is that we are opposed to any entry of foreign troops into Jordan." Next day his Mapai Party newspaper Davar floated a sly balloon: "Who knows whether Nasser is not prepared to submit to Israel's entry into Jordan...
...said the UAC felt that, if athletes led the cheers, they would add "prestige" to the role of cheerleading. At present, cheerleading is "not an honor at Harvard," Noble stated, and added that though the Athletic Council "did not like the idea of cutting four cheerleaders, it felt its decision was one which would be beneficial to Harvard...