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Aalto built widely in Finland and Scandinavia with a few structures elsewhere in Europe and the U.S. A total individualist, he broke away from stiff neo-classicism and stark Bauhaus, and ranks with Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe as an architectural innovator. Unlike such men, however, he never issued architectural rules, attracted many disciples, or even handed down sculptural forms to copy. His work remains influential mainly for what are really moral reasons. " Architecture-the real thing," Aalto once said, "is only to be found when man stands in the center." All architects talk about...
Lowell House Opera produces "Der Freischutz" by Carl Maria von Weber. Mostly Harvard cast. David Commonday, music director. Repeat performances Saturday and Sunday nights. Admission $3.50, $2.50. Lowell Dining Hall...
...inertial navigator the Taiwanese engineers are designing is only useful for airplanes and ships, Wallace Van Der Veld, the program's administrator, said Monday, but he added that the technology the engineers were learning at MIT could have military applications...
...recruited in Britain and the U.S. But the white manpower pool is stretched thin, and the military is increasingly turning to blacks, who make up more than half the army and three-quarters of the paramilitary police force. "They are absolutely first-class soldiers," says Defense Minister P.K. Van der Byl. He insists that he has no qualms about their loyalty...
...Hills last week, Crosby, 75, and Comedian Phil Harris, 69, announced the formation of their own import company. The pair's first product: Mexico's Herradura Tequila, a blue-chip potable that will sell in the U.S. for $13 a fifth. "It's a natural," says der Bingle. "Phil has been known to take a drink from time to time. If he does half as much for Herradura as he's done for Jack Daniel's over the years...