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Maudling's resignation came as Britain's Metropolitan Police were about to investigate the affairs of a Yorkshire architect named John Poulson, who declared himself bankrupt last year with debts of $595,000. During the bankruptcy proceedings, Poulson said he had paid more than $800,000 for "services rendered" to two Members of Parliament, four government officials and Maudling...
Died. Aline Saarinen, 58, art critic, newswoman and widow of Architect Eero Saarinen; from a brain tumor; in Manhattan. A former managing editor of Art News, Saarinen began her television career eight years ago as a correspondent on NBC's Today show. Handsome and gay, acerbic and outspoken, she was a refreshing commentator on a wide range of subjects on her own TV talk show, For Women Only, before NBC sent her to Paris in 1971 as the first woman bureau chief in television history...
JOHN PORTMAN, 47, architect. Made famous with his design for Atlanta's Regency Hyatt House, with its soaring 21-story lobby and see-through elevators, Portman has been the architect for $ 153 million in other Atlanta development, including the attractive Peachtree Center, a complex with vast business spaces imaginatively broken up by restaurants, sidewalk cafes and fountains. Now a multimillionaire, Portman was picked to design San Francisco's new Embarcadero Center, Detroit's $500 million waterfront renovation, and projects in Fort Worth, Los Angeles and Brussels...
...hired a graphics "expert", no doubt to modernize the appearance of two for one. The result is a hodgepodge of old and new that serves mostly to clutter up the paper. There are so many boxes throughout the pages--particularly the editorial and society pages--that layouts resemble an architect's sketch for a high-rise complex, only with copy filling the gaps where windows and air should be. The editorial page is adorned with one of those snappy buglines that saturate the paper, "View Point," and if you can look at the page long enough to read...
Less may be more, according to the new designers, but for Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum to be true, as he well knew, careful attention must be paid to structure, to supports, to underpinnings. Barrie frankly uses narrow crisscross straps, back or front. Crahay of Lanvin hangs his backless clothes from tied stock collars. Donald Brooks has engineered foundations into his backless dresses, so secure that a woman can even "curtsy and not fall out," he claims. But for women who want to be both bared and bra-ed, complicated problems lie ahead. One possibility...