Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Columbus, Ind., was clearly on the way down. Only a generation ago, its business area and residential neighborhoods were decaying, bored young people were leaving to find work elsewhere and the municipal future seemed all too bleak. Today Columbus (pop. 30,000) is a city transformed. Rising dramatically on a flood plain between Indianapolis and Louisville, it has become a bustling, vital community, a showcase of contemporary architecture-and the envy of urban redevelopers everywhere...
There are no fewer than 41 modern buildings, all designed by nationally and internationally famed architects. On Sundays, the citizens of Columbus worship in churches designed by Eero and Eliel Saarinen. They borrow books at a library built from the innovative plans of I.M. Pei and embellished with a bronze arch sculpted by Henry Moore. They shop in a glass-enclosed piazza designed by Cesar Pelli, and send their children to schools conceived by Architects Harry Weese, Eliot Noyes and John Warnecke. Along with the distinctive new structures, the spirit and pride of Columbus have risen as well. All over...
...city's master builder is J. Irwin Miller, a civic-minded industrialist and former president of the National Council of Churches who is sometimes called "the Medici of the Middle West." In 1939, Miller startled Columbus by choosing the great Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design a new building for Columbus' First Christian Church. But it was not until 1957 that Miller really shook up the old town. By then he was board chairman of his family's Cummins Engine Co. and was concerned about the difficulty of attracting talented young executives to Columbus. So he announced...
...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, the First Baptist Church then got Weese to concoct a striking, almost medieval-looking church, with a steeply...
...understand why people keep I talking about size," Cleveland Browns Running Back Greg Pruitt complains. "Nobody ever asked Columbus how tall he was." Perhaps because, in the words of a contemporary of the Great Discoverer, Columbus was "as regards his exterior person and bodily disposition, more than middling tall." But in the behemoth world of professional football, Pruitt, at 5 ft. 9 in. and 190 Ibs., is more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed...