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...perpetual uneasiness. Nothing can be more nervewracking for a guest at a dinner party than receiving suggestive little notes from a hostess who also happens to be his respected mentor's wife. Afraid lest he be caught receiving "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party," a young architect has to resort to the most difficult assortment of social acrobatics in accepting and reading the notes his hostess keeps slipping into his pocket. Their unusual correspondence culminates in a fumbling rendezvous in a closet. Were they to make contact, however, were they to touch each other even briefly...
...moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height (6 ft. 4 in.), he became a football and track star. He took racial slurs in stride. Recalls Robert Carter, a landscape architect who played football with him: "Even when they spit on him, he wouldn't say anything. He was completely at peace with himself...
...being unseated because of the Lambton affair. Nonetheless, there were rumors that trouble for his Conservative government might be brewing in the financial world. Last summer Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Reginald Maudling was obliged to resign after police launched an investigation into the affairs of an architect named John Poulson, who had declared himself bankrupt with debts of $595,000. Maudling's association with Poulson was apparently innocent, but the harsh political reality was that he could not remain in the government as Home Secretary while police-under his jurisdiction-were looking into the case...
...relation to every other department. The result was a drawing that Environetics President Larry Lerner calls "a building profile"-a jagged shape that looks like a child's random construction with wooden blocks of varying sizes. When this interior scheme was shown to the building's architect, Bruce Graham of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he gasped: "How do you expect me to design around that...
...spring of 1973 has brought a worldwide revival of interest in a mustachioed, vegetarian nonsmoker. An artist and architect, he was a firm believer in astrology and, though a speed freak, surrounded himself with people who preferred cocaine and morphine. His appeal to youth was legendary: he could hold an auditorium spellbound for hours with a vocal solo. He died underground, committing suicide in protest against a social climate that he found oppressive...