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Ahmed stayed in Mecca eight days, living in one of the small hotels that crowd the city. Again and again he visited the Kaaba, the small cubic building that houses the sacred Black Stone-the center of the earth for Moslems. Guided by his mutawwif, Ahmed queued up to put his head in the bowl-like enclosure to kiss the Black Stone, worn away by the lips of pilgrims, and added his kiss to the kisses of centuries. He made his seven counterclockwise turns around the Kaaba, three times running and four times walking...
...projects beckon. The city of Detroit has asked him how to give sculptural shape to 60 million cubic yards of earth excavated in the construction of new underpasses and highway cut-throughs. "Imagine it, a pile of earth two miles long, a hundred yards wide, and five stories tall!" he says, eyes glittering. At the other end of the weight scale, he is also starting new works in aluminum and balsa wood. "Why not?" he asks. "Anything can be sculpture, even air in balloons. The form is the main thing...
...Lost Cord. In Bonisdorf, Austria, Bürgermeister Rudolf Schadl inspected 4 cubic meters of firewood cut on village land, returned the next day to find the woodpile still neatly stacked-but 32 feet away, in Yugoslavia...
...something new, as usual. In West Los Angeles he opened a $250,000 laboratory to put his company into solid-state physics in his search for new products. Among far-out fields to be studied: microcircuitry (e.g., reducing the chassis of a satellite television unit to a few cubic inches) and electroluminescence (e.g., picturing all of a plane's instrument readings on a cockpit window so the pilot will not have to glance away even when landing or taking off). While moving farther into the wild blue yonder, he is also readying new gadgets for planes. His newest commercial...
...into distinct departments is a reflection of the high specialization in civic design in this country; in many foreign countries the distinction between architect and urbanist is considered artificial and dangerous in its encouragement of an overly technical and mechanical approach--planners computing the incremental cost of the necessary cubic feet of air per average inhabitant in a sanitized superblock--without regard for the human element involved...