Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Puffing on a pipe in his book-lined living room in Cherry Cottage, Buckinghamshire, Clement Attlee, old soldier (a major in World War I) and mild-seeming architect of Britain's 1945 Labor revolution, was in a mood to speak out; he was under the impression that the go-minute interview would not be shown on TV until after his death. But last week, as a result of some "fast talking" by his interviewer (and old friend) Francis Williams, Lord Attlee agreed to a 45-minute version to be shown over the BBC on his 76th birthday. Among...
...Finest Architect." Never before had the U.S. Government gone to such length to impress a foreign country with an embassy. As architect, it hired Edward Stone (TIME Cover, March 31 ), designer of the American Pavilion at the Brussels Fair. The building was dubbed the Taj Maria* for Stone's wife ("Mr. Stone is the finest architect in the world," says she), and the embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from...
...Precise Power. The U.S.'s holding of the free world's defense lines made 1958's most telling headlines. Architect of the defense was Secretary Dulles, who parceled out just enough U.S. power to keep the peace, but never more than enough. High points of crisis...
...people,' "-he says, "but in the war I was completely disenchanted with the people in the mass, and by the same token developed a great respect for the individual. And I think I learned also the practical aspect of standing in line for something." Springfield (Mass.) Architect Francis Liberatori, 39, paratrooper (loist Airborne) who lost the use of both legs in Normandy, reflects something about a new quiet kind of patriotism: "I learned some useful things about men and about my country in the war. And those things I don't forget...
Crusader Hiss* first had to take his lumps. He got nine out-of-town architects to submit plans, saw them turned down cold because the plans smacked of "progressive education." But Hiss kept fighting for good design, pointed out that the cheapest schools run up the highest maintenance costs. The next year he won his first round. M.I.T. educated Architect William Zimmerman of Sarasota, 42, got the job of designing the twelve-classroom Brookside Junior High School. Zimmerman proceeded to divide his project into a campus of long, low-slung buildings attached to a central, triangular walk. He installed floor...