Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world to take inventory of man's progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more than 15 sculptors. All are Canadians except for the U.S.'s Alexander Calder, whose gigantic $200,000 stainless steel...
...Munich plant produced airplane engines for the Junker bombers and for Hitler's jet fighter, the Messerschmitt ME 262. In 1947, after the U.S. Army stopped using BMW's shops to repair its tanks, the company started making motorcycles again, and began looking around for a car design as well. Misjudging the market, BMW decided on an eight-cylinder luxury job which cost so much to build that it lost money from the start. Simultaneously, the company started producing a loser on the other end of the scale: the onecylinder 13-h.p. Isetta. By 1959, the firm...
Another approach is the British "grid," calling for the creation of several self-contained neighborhoods-complete with schools, theaters, shopping centers and parks. Along these lines, Mayor John Lindsay's task force on urban design suggests that New York City, rather than pack even more skyscrapers into midtown Manhattan and Wall Street, should create a major business district along Harlem's 125th Street. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in fact, has encouraged the move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building...
...city, only 22% of all commuters could drive to work. For those who live within the city, driving is generally out of the question. They take a taxi if they can afford and find one (increasingly difficult), or the subway-which, according to the city's design task force, is "probably the most squalid environment of the U.S., dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter." And savagely crowded at rush hour...
Under the present MBTA plan, Park noted, entrances to the subway would be along Mass. Ave. thus cutting off Brattle and Mt. Auburn Streets and the Kennedy Library from easy access to commuters. "We believe a much improved design can be made available which will serve the public better," he added...