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Rosovsky, former dean of the Faculty and principal architect of the requirement, said that he "would like to think it's the quality of the courses." He also attributes its popularity to the fact that more and more departments are giving credit for Core classes, and that "not an insignificant number of students are taking Core classes as electives...
...earlier successes. Known jokingly as "l'americain" among his colleagues, he received both an M.B.A. and a doctorate in economics at Columbia University before becoming Renault's U.S. marketing director in 1959. Hanon spent his 26-year career at Renault earning a reputation as a visionary car executive. The architect of Renault's move into the U.S. market, he took part in the development of the successful R-5 subcompact (Le Car) in the 1970s. The company now owns 46% of American Motors and 41% of Mack Trucks. Both have become profitable bright spots in the company's panorama...
Exactly, says the architect, Helmut Jahn: "Technically, spatially, functionally and symbolically, this is something new." That was what Illinois Governor James R. Thompson wanted when he ordered the building in 1979 as a workplace for some 3,000 state employees. Thompson, who chose the design from three offered by Jahn, has already moved his Chicago office there, although the $172 million structure does not officially open until May. "It was a lot of money and a radical design," says Thompson. "But I felt that sometimes only government can afford to take the chance to do something really different...
...architect's widow perceived Stalin's daughter as a mystical representative, possibly even the reincarnation, of her own daughter, who had died in an auto accident in 1946. Mrs. Wright, a disciple of the Russian-born mystic Georgi Gurdjieff, was spellbound by some coincidences between the living and the dead. Her daughter, by an earlier marriage in Russia, had also been named Svetlana; moreover, she had been born in Georgia, the region from which Svetlana Alliluyeva's father hailed. Somehow it followed in Mrs. Wright's mind that Stalin's daughter should marry the first Svetlana's widower, William Wesley...
...felt alone in a strange country and seemed particularly vulnerable to the stresses of late motherhood. Having gained custody of Olga by the terms of her 1973 divorce from Peters, she refused to allow the child to visit her father at Taliesin West. Thus thwarted, the busy architect rarely went to see Olga and, though he corresponded with her, remained a more remote figure than Olga's aunt, Margedant. It was "Aunt Marge" who was to provide Olga with her strongest American roots. The child stayed with the Hayakawas in Washington, when her uncle was in the U.S. Senate from...