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...executive who knows how to automate and cut costs. Last week Westinghouse Electric, the second biggest U.S. electrical-equipment manufacturer (after General Electric), picked for its president a man who fits that mold so perfectly that he is known as "Mr. Automation." The new chief is Donald Clemens Burnham, 48, who makes a fetish of efficiency but also manages to smile at it. He is, besides, an ingenious engineer who is also a supersalesman...
Skinned & Reskinned. Most new buildings look as if they came off the same assembly line; architectural classics of a more individualistic age are being forced to conform. In San Francisco, the Home Mutual Savings Building, designed by Daniel Burnham and John W. Root in the tradition of the illustrious 19th century Chicago school of architecture, is now having its balanced grandeur shrouded by a curtain wall of glittery white porcelain enamel. "Worse than a desecration," growls Architect Nathaniel Owings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. "It's a stupid misunderstanding of what the future...
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...Harvard winners of the Woodrow on Fellowships included Stephen L. Kirby A. Baker, John S. Belmont, on S.P. Bennett, Alan V. Berger, e A. Burnham, Denis P. Coughlin, d C. Davidson, Preston O. de Long, pe de Montebello, Guido F. Di Meo, mith Freeman...
...five years of life, Buckley has led National Review through a sometimes baffling intellectual maze. In 1956, one of its editors, James (The Managerial Revolution) Burnham, recommended President Eisenhower's reelection: "The least bad choice." In the same issue, another editor, William S. Schlamm, urged Eisenhower's defeat: "To liberate the Republican Party from the man who is destroying it." In 1960 the magazine has endorsed Richard M. Nixon, but with the back of its hand ("Who likes Nixon's Republicanism? We don't"), as the only alternative to the Democrats' John F. Kennedy...