Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opportunity that doesn't come often to an architect," says Ed Stone. "Neither does the problem of spanning 350 feet. Why, you could put the University of Arkansas' football field in here and still have room." In the cloth velarium used by Roman emperors to cover the Colosseum, Stone found his solution to roofing the largest free-span circular building ever erected. He devised a bicycle-wheel system of cables, each under no tons' tension, to hold up the pavilion's 68,400 sq. ft. plastic outer roof...
Outside Stone's office, opinion is sharply divided on his direct challenge to the glass façade. The principal question: Will the grille become a cliche and a cover for bad architecture? Says Manhattan Architect Philip Johnson: "The New Delhi embassy? How could I help but love it? It's a jewel! But architecture is more than putting up drapes in front of a house to hide it." Architect Eero Saarinen (TIME Cover, July 2, 1956) feels that the New Delhi embassy "marks a new turning point toward stateliness and dignity," but also thinks that "the best...
...views. Yet Texas-born Bill White, who labels himself an "independent," also feels an affinity for the Senate's dominant Southern conservatives, many of whom, e.g., House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he has known since he went to Washington in 1933 to cover Texas affairs for the Associated Press...
Starting out as a reporter on the Austin Statesman while he was still at the University of Texas, White joined the A.P. in 1926, had become its general night editor in Manhattan headquarters before he went off to cover the war in Europe. Says he: "A newspaperman's life is a good career for the man who's really disinterested, whose aim is to explain facts, whose temperament is detached." One of the first dailies to start Columnist White on his new career last week was the conservative Washington Star (circ. 254,992), which signed...