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...Jackson, senior assistant dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday he was "unaware" of South House's brick troubles. "We simply put in our brick order way in advance," Jackson added. Construction of the Kennedy School is on schedule and should be completed by August 1978, he said...
...chess. Another board-and-counter game, Othello, sells well enough to indicate that its termites are nesting. Master Mind, a code-breaking game devised by an Israeli cryptanalyst, has its own fanatics. From Rumanian Jews in Israel comes a kind of gin rummy played with tiles, variously called Rummi-brick and Rummikub; one manufacturer in Korea has picked up the game and expects to ship 100,000 by the year's end to sell at up to $40 a set. And the Scrabble Crossword Game, thought to be a children's diversion only by those who have...
...together at Yale in the 1930s, to build what would become one of the country's first banks with all-glass walls and an atrium-like interior. The town fathers soon followed Miller's cue, recruiting famous architects to design eleven stunning new schools, including an octagonal brick, glass and wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which he topped with a soaring spire that is affectionately called "the oil can." In a friendly ecclesiastical rivalry...
...poor white neighborhoods near Johannesburg, where the red brick row houses resemble those of Soweto, people are equally apprehensive. Says Mrs. Hestor Nortje, a widow: "We can live with the blacks, but can they live with us? There is so much suspicion, you don't know whether a man is going to kill you or not. If you live in the same area, the blacks will take the attitude they are better than the whites and take over...
...reputation without being able to draw believable people. What he can draw-churches, cities, pyramids-he does better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world. His previous books have examined the construction and administration of those structures; Castle (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95) once again goes through a brick-by-brick assembly, employing crosshatches and thin black lines to evoke a medieval place and period...