Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grownup children play with curves and tensions they do not control," he snorts. "It smells of Hollywood. The human being becomes forgotten." His office now has projects for a new cultural center for Wolfsburg, Germany (home of the Volkswagen works), a museum in Denmark, a semicircular apartment house in Bremen and a new opera house for Essen. Says U.S. Architect Eero Saarinen, himself the son of a famed Finnish architect: "In the postwar decade, Aalto seemed headed away from the mainstream of architecture-until now. The development of the last few years has proved him right. Architecture, while maintaining...
BETTY ALLEN Bremen...
Five years ago, they decided to ease back into the passenger business, started off with the 19,100-ton Swedish hospital ship Gripsholm (cost: $2,500,000) to save the time and money of building a new ship, rechristened her Berlin. Bremen was made over in similar fashion two years ago from the French Pasteur, which had been launched in 1939. Lloyd rebuilt her completely at an overall cost of $25 million. Says Bertram: "The same ship would cost $44 million starting from scratch, and we wouldn't get delivery before 1963." Entering New York harbor last week, Bremen...
Cured: "Manager's Sickness." The new Bremen is slower (six days from Southampton at 23 knots) and smaller (32,336 tons) than the old, which carried twice as many passengers (2,231 v. 1,122). But Lloyd plans to pitch its appeal to tourists who want leisurely travel, non-dress-up luxury and fine, hearty food. Probably his best year-round clientele, figures Director Bertram, will be ocean-hopping businessmen who need a respite from the jet pace (some German firms now require executives flying the ocean to return by ship...
...build up this traffic, Bremen V offers such inducements as a secretarial pool and a super-health service featuring curative treatment for all forms of "manager's sickness." The company is asking German businessmen: "Are you important enough to your business to travel by ship?" Evidently, Bertram himself has just graduated to that class. This is fast-flying Bertram's first round-trip ship crossing since...