Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawing boards hold greater changes. Beginning in early 1963, Chicago will build a 32-story, $67 million Civic Center. Using his familiar materials of glass and steel, Chicago Architect Mies van der Rohe has designed a 30-story. $50 million U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building. Starting from scratch, the University of Illinois will build a completely self-contained campus for its Chicago division that will eventually be used by 9,000 students...
...whole, Chicago's new buildings reflect the influence of Mies van der Rohe's cleanly sculpted rectangles and squares. Although a few architects are fretful ("We're going to have a fantastic glut of office space and apartments"), most are convinced that Chicago is growing fast enough to fill the buildings that are popping up all over town. Says William Hartmann, a vice president of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: "The boom represents the solidification of the Midwest as an industrial center and as a place to invest...
...Long Beach, Calif., by proclaiming that the very thought of atomic weapons in German hands "terrifies me. Eighty per cent of West Germany's officials are ex-Nazis. They say none of them liked Hitler, but every day people go over to that now empty bunker [where der FÜhrer died] and stand . . ." Unnoted by Mrs. Roosevelt was the fact that Hitler's old bunker is behind the Communist wall in East Berlin...
Work & Worship. When the meaning of liturgical changes has been explained to them, most congregations have taken favorably to the restoration of form and ceremony. "They rebel at first," admits the Rev. Jans van der Graaf...
Doing Business. This time, Adenauer came to do business. He spent 13 hours in on-and-off discussions so private that even West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder was kept mostly in the dark about what went on. After one of Adenauer's meetings with Kennedy, Schröder approached the Chancellor to ask what the talk had been about, got a frosty brushoff. "My dear fellow," said Adenauer, "it was a private conversation. If I told you, it would no longer be private...