Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, at the age of 82, Mies saw his dream come true, although from a distance. In West Berlin, the $6,250,000 new National Gallery, which he designed (and for which he laid the cornerstone in 1965), officially opened to the public. Ailing and confined to a wheelchair, Mies had to remain in Chicago, where he now travels from his cooperative apartment to his office only once or twice a month to examine the new models for the many Mies-designed buildings now under way.*Still, those who saw the museum in Berlin agreed that it may well...
Wider Spectrum. Michael Dann, CBS's senior V.P. for programming, concedes that "the true excitement must come from specials." This year NBC will offer Roberto Rossellini's impressions of Sicily, an original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman...
...good, steady-going, down-to-earth pop group." Their beat is tight and jabbing, their guitar backings crisp. Their songs (Happy Jack, I Can See for Miles) aim to divert listeners rather than convert them. Un like current groups performing along the protest-and-prophecy axis, they do not come on like four hoarse men of the Apocalypse. Not at first...
...display, as Peter Townshend admits, "is an act, and it really is meaningless." It is also troublesome, since it requires them constantly to prowl the pawnshops in search of cheap replacements for broken instruments. "We started using it," says Townshend, "as a lever to get the audiences to come, and then, we hoped, dig the rest of the music." Now the audiences are coming. The Who rank close behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones as one of England's leading rock groups, and they are rapidly winning frenzied admirers in America as well. Still, the music seems overshadowed...
...ranking of the largest U.S. industrial corporations, has long been a kind of Burke's Peerage of business. Less widely known is FORTUNE'S listing of the top 200 foreign industries. The results of the overseas survey, as published in the magazine's current issue, will come as an eye opener to most U.S. businessmen...