Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elizabeth Taylor, Queen Sirikit of Thailand, Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. And while Elsa Martinelli, Sophia Loren and Jean Shrimpton have so far resisted the shears, they are all tucking their hair under short wigs to achieve a similar effect. Manhattan's Kenneth, who gained fame as the architect of Jackie Kennedy's bouffant extravaganzas, has switched to the short crop. Explains Kenneth: "Short skirts need a small, close head, and my clients are getting the message...
...Watts, 43, started putting out pamphlets, which later turned into a 35? magazine, when he got tired of working as a "Negro architect" with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. His hatred for whites as well as many of his fellow Negroes is apparently inexhaustible. On the other hand, his love knows no bounds for the likes of Mao Tse-tung, Malcolm X, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Adam Clayton Powell...
...Architect Philip Johnson was right: a wing added to the Boston Public Library [Feb. 24], or a building that would dominate it, would have been out of the question; a duplicate would have been more absurd than either...
Stangl was one of 800 such killers so far tracked by the Jewish Documentation Center, Wiesenthal's one-man operation. A Polish-born architect, Wiesenthal survived five years at Mauthausen and other concentration camps, helped forge his wife's "Christian" papers to spirit her out of the Warsaw ghetto; together, they lost 87 relatives to the Nazis. Since the war's end, he has carried on his search, helped by cash contributions from many parts of the world. In his new book, The Murderers Among Us (to be published this month in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill...
Leonardo da Vinci during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the "universal man," at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But he was almost as well known for his inability to see his projects through. "Alas," cried Pope Leo X, "Leonardo will never finish anything. He thinks of the end even before he has begun." As a result, while some 6,000 pages of his notes and casual sketches survive, there are only 15 known Leonardo paintings-and some experts place the number as low as nine...