Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tunnel had three levels, each connected with another by concrete trap doors, linked to the forest floor above by intricate air vents and concrete cover plates. On one plate, its architect had proudly scratched "1962" in the setting concrete. Choppers worked overtime ferrying in explosives as the allies systematically explored-and then destroyed-the labyrinth. Among its contents: four truckloads of enemy maps, documents and training pamphlets, a typewriter, tons of rice, stacks of still cosmolined .50-cal. machine guns rigged with antiaircraft sights, and even Western pinup pictures. So extensive was the haul that Saigon suspected it might have...
...flexibility. Such immovable objects as stairs, elevators and ventilating shafts are arranged along the outer walls, leaving unobstructed central floor space on its eight levels so that inner partitions can be shifted at will. A few small outer win dows provide uniquely framed views of Cambridge. Caudill, a Houston architect, delighted last week in reciting the conflicting terms already applied to the building: "Mosque modern, modern medieval, warm, cold, beautiful, nauseating, traditional, original, a genial robot, and an IBM card...
...four, the Harvard Graduate School of Education is currently taking the boldest measures to cope with education's imponderable future. A yearlong, soul-searching study recently examined the school's aims and responsibilities-and last week the school dedicated a new building in which, as Architect William W. Caudill put it, "the container fits the contained...
...writes like no one except herself. And she proves it the hard way by choosing a worn theme that a single sentimental slip could have transformed into a ladies'-magazine romance. Sophie, not-too-young, not-too-attractive, visits Italy and meets Tancredi, a dapper, middle-aged architect living apart from his wife and family. Because Sophie seems to him like a piece of important information he must acquire, Tancredi sets out to seduce her. Sophie finally, almost wearily, succumbs. Then the cool lovers discover that they are madly in love-but briefly, advisedly and with muted consent. Eventually...
Died. Frederick Kiesler, 76, visionary architect and sculptor, Vienna-born designer (with Partner Armand Bartos) of Jerusalem's underground Shrine of the Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...