Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bastion for Books. In Boston, the problem was the city's 72-year-old Public Library, a stately Italian Renaissance-style palazzo designed by Charles McKim, senior partner of McKim, Mead & White, which presides augustly over Copley Square. So highly is the design regarded in the architectural profession that the American Institute of Architects voted it one of the best 50 buildings of the past 100 years. But the Public Library is today woefully overcrowded. To design a $22 million addition with room for 1,000 more readers and 3,000,000 more volumes, Mayor John Collins...
Tanks at Any Minute. Both Boston's Mayor Collins and New York's John Lindsay pronounced themselves well-satisfied clients. Lindsay called the Central Park design "inconspicuous and understated," a true triumph for the architecture of repression. But both mayors still have to cope with public reaction...
...child is aware of the highly volatile nature of a pressurized, 100% oxygen environment. I find it inconceivable that a fire-extinguishing and emergency-hatch system capable of being instantaneously triggered at any stage of the countdown was not ordered into the design of the Apollo capsule. It is true that "accidents will happen," particularly in research programs such as this-but they are excusable only if due to causes unknown or unforeseeable. This wasteful tragedy is made even more poignant by the fact that its prevention was well within our present technological capability...
Bean believed, and was obviously content in proving, that "it takes a sportsman to design equipment for sportsmen." For more than 50 years, the flinty, down-East salesman peddled wilderness wares of his own making to grizzled backwoodsmen as well as fugitives from Abercrombie & Fitch. Among those who bought his snowshoes, fishing tackle and what have you were Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Babe Ruth, Doris Day and Amy Vanderbilt. To meet the demand, Bean employed 120 workers, also maintained a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year ("When hunters need something, they want it right away") retail outlet...
...schools are headed by a man so reactionary he opposes use of textbooks mentioning the UN, it is frightening to contemplate extension of this conservative vise-grip to higher education. Mr. Reagan and Mr. Rafferty seem to share one mind, possibly one wit. Louis Nateshon '63 Graduate School of Design...