Word: architects
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Because the Library will contain a memorial to the President, and because it will contain the Institute as well, it will probably be somewhat larger than Kennedy envisioned. The Kennedy family and Ieoh Ming Pei, the architect who will design the library, are known to prefer the MBTA Yard site, which is three times as large as the Business School location...
...Financed by a $1,000,000 gift from the late James Newbegin Jarvie, a New Jersey coffee-and-sugar millionaire, the 31-year-old Jerusalem Y was designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon, architect of Manhattan's famed Empire State Building. One of Israel's tallest structures, the pink, ocher and brown marble building consists of two domed wings connected by cloisters to a Jesus Tower, symbolizing the Trinity and the Y's threefold function-developing man's body, mind and spirit. Twelve cypress trees in the eight acres of gardens represent the twelve Apostles...
...management and got there is Edward Teale ('34), president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., which built the nuclear-powered ship Savannah. Owen Oakley ('37) is director of preliminary ship design for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships, where John Nachtsheim ('47) is chief naval architect. J. J. Henry ('35) heads his own top firm, lately designed the naval icebreaker Glacier, and helped develop a fleet of ships to take liquefied gas from Algeria to London and from the Persian Gulf to Tokyo. Several Webb alumni, including John Parkinson ('29), NASA's chief...
...Chicago Art Institute and another $1,000,000 to Honolulu's Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii...
Married. Susan Saarinen, 19, Architect Hero's only daughter (by First Wife Lily); and Kirk Wilkinson, 22, fellow student at the Rhode Island School of Design; in a Unitarian ceremony in the chapel that Saarinen built at M.I.T., in Cambridge, Mass...