Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Candela moved on to experiment with conoids, folded slabs and elliptical domes. In a land where steel is costly and labor cheap, he proved that he could use concrete shells to build a big church for $41,000, a warehouse for as little as 50? per sq. ft. Clients, including real-estate developers in Texas and a restaurant chain in Florida, have found them not only cheap but handsome. In his just completed lagoon restaurant (opposite), done with Architect Joaquin Alvarez Ordoñez, Candela uses undulating folds of great elegance. For his Santa Fe bandstand, done with Architect Mario...
...strange as any medieval unicorn or griffin is the life and personality of Terence Hanbury ("Tim") White. He lives on the pebble-sized English Channel isle of Alderney (pop. 1,600), famed for its low taxes, cheap liquor, puffins and stormy petrels. Stormy Petrel White arrived ten years ago announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from Britain, and ever since, his pranks have been the pub chatter of the natives. A sun-cured, white-bearded bachelor of 52, White lives alone except for the hedgehogs, snakes and hawks that he favors as pets. His absentmindedness...
...Bill's blues were the simple, freewheeling poetry of fresh-plowed earth and cotton fields and the taste of mountain whisky under a hot summer sun. His blues were the big city too, its tenements, its bread lines, and its cheap women sneaking out of a man's bed at midnight to steal his day's pay. When highbrow critics filed his blues under "folk music," Bill snorted: "Folk songs? I don't know what they is. I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing...
...machinery and electrical goods are among the world's least expensive. Last week many a Japanese businessman was looking in the other direction: toward higher-priced, quality products fitted to compete with the world's best. They argue that Japan actually damages its potential U.S. markets with cheap, often shoddy goods copycatted from U.S. or other foreign manufacturers. To U.S. consumers, the label "Made in Japan" frequently acts as a red light that warns of inferior goods. Now Japan wants to turn the light green...
Grand Prix. The efforts of the radio and camera men have encouraged other Japanese industries to follow suit. Says Koji Kato, director of Alps Shoji toy company: "Past experience shows that flimsy, cheap toys are the best way to lose a market. We are now working to make toys more durable, safer, and at the same time more advanced than foreign makes." U.S. Toymaker Louis Marx is giving the industry a hand, recently went to Japan with a plan to reorganize the entire Japanese toy industry by supplying U.S. technicians, leasing machines, supplying designs and working out a "division...