Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then State Department officials in Washington made an embarrassing discovery: Hilde's father is Albert Speer, an architect and administrative genius who became head of Germany's economic mobilization in 1942; he is now serving 20 years as a convicted war criminal. Last week the department took Hilde's name off the list. Officials explained that they were not prejudiced against the girl on account of her father's past, but merely wanted to save her from painful embarrassment. It cited recent instances where social invitations to German exchange students in the Midwest were cancelled after...
...adults, and a lower one for children. Decorating the fountain were abstract figures with long, storklike arms and legs. Junyer worked out his idea last year on a trip to Sweden, when it suddenly struck him how "stylized and ugly" drinking fountains had become. With the help of Swedish Architect Hans Asplund, he assembled four old bathtubs, then worked six weeks to cut, weld and enamel them into his nonstylized fountain. Explained Junyer: "Water is such a nice thing, it should be treated nicely...
...next one out. In 1944 he was the chief architect of the Republican platform while his fellow Ohioan, John Bricker, took a run for President and wound up as the vice-presidential candidate. Not long after the election returns were in, Taft had forgotten his "never again." He traveled 30,000 miles and made 500 speeches before the 1948 convention, but then the high-powered Dewey machine ran him down...
Pushing Out. Two years ago, Morse presided so ably over the planning board of the new National Council of Churches that U.S. churchmen call him ''the architect of the National Council." As moderator of the northern Presbyterians (membership: 2,500,000). he will put his prestige to the support of the world ecumenical movement, as well as to plans for a union of the three major Presbyterian bodies in the U.S. Missionary Morse wants more Presbyterians to realize the challenge of change. "It's easy." he said, "for congregations to have the sense of being...
Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, naturalist, writer, was one of the wisest and most universal of men. This spring and summer, to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth, a few remaining fruits of Leonardo's vast labors are being exhibited in England, France, Italy...