Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construct an efficient campaign organization. His personal staff consists mostly of Minnesotans with little expertise in national politics. He tried to attract Lawrence O'Brien, but lost him to Kennedy; there is no Humphrey cadre of veteran organizers to match Kennedy's. Humphrey himself, although he was a leading architect of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in the 1940s, has never been considered a particularly astute tactician on the national level. In 1956, he openly sought the vice-presidential nomination, ran a humiliating third behind Estes Kefauver and John Kennedy. In 1960, Kennedy did not merely beat Humphrey...
Among the new record breakers: Paul Klee's 1936 Südische Garten, formerly owned by Architect Mies van der Rohe, which went for $86,400; and Jean Dubuffet's 1947 Il Flúte sur la Basse, which brought $48,000. Highest bid was $300,000 for Picasso's oval-shaped 1912 cubist painting La Pointe de la Cite. Second most expensive picture was Georges Braque's Homage à J. S. Bach from the same period, which was bought for $276,000 by Manhattan Dealer Sidney Janis, who last January gave his first...
...Cheri is still in its infancy. The third screen was installed only last September. They still seem to evoke only the blandness of the architect's original blueprints. But a certain carnival atmsphere has begun to emerge. The Cheri lobby functions something like a county fair. Tickets for each picture are sold in their respective kiosks. There is a huge refreshment stand stranded like a useless life raft in the center of the floor. Off to one side, there is what pretends to be both a sidewalk café' and an ice cream parlor. Remnants of an art exhibition...
...twice as many freshmen interested as eventually concentrated; but the major was played down. Its existence was even more ambiguous than Vis Stud's. Being part of the Graduate School of Design, the program's requirements and tutors geared studies to architecture and background knowledge essential to becoming an architect...
...draw a lot of disaffected concentrators looking to tie in sociological study with action--in this case, design. But Arch Sci kept its numbers down by telling them what city planning really was and handing them the confusion about not majoring in architecture if you want to be an architect. Still, City Planning was way over-subscribed...