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When M.I.T. commissioned him to do an auditorium, he not only rejected the International cube, but also Louis Sullivan's dictum of "form follows function." He put up an auditorium encased in a gleaming white three-cornered shell that could just as well have been an exhibition hall or a supermarket. For the chapel at M.I.T., his inspiration was the grottoes of Capri, which get their magic light from the sun bouncing...
...tipped off the Nazis who arrested Thalmann and later executed him. In 1938 Ulbricht moved to Moscow to serve Stalin more closely. Of the many other German Communists who sought refuge in Russia, some 3,000 were killed or sent to labor camps by Moscow's harsh dictum. Ulbricht had not so much as raised a finger to protect them...
...unparalleled professional school" for Government policymakers. Founded in 1930, the Wood-row Wilson School follows its namesake's dictum that "the school must be of the nation." Offering the first U.S. interdepartmental program (economics, history, politics, sociology), the school has boasted a unique flair for practicality. Students range from sharp new college graduates to seasoned foreign businessmen and rising Army colonels. To earn Wilson's degree of Master of Public Affairs, they spend hours in seminars, work summers in Government agencies. The goal is a graduate trained to use academic tools on ticklish public problems-from birth-control...
While plumping before a House committee for a $10 million bill to battle juvenile delinquency, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff delivered an obiter dictum on child labor legislation. A New Britain, Conn. newsboy at eight and a milkman's helper at twelve, the Polish immigrant's son suspected that present statutes would have slowed his own running start, faulted "laws that do too much coddling of children." Said he: "I think it's better for a boy to take a job as delivery boy for a drugstore than to be hanging around a drugstore corner...
...Ruth's record is forever safe ... it can never be taken from him," barked Cleveland Manager Jimmie Dykes last week. But Dykes's dictum was beginning to sound like wishful thinking. Minutes after he spoke, New York Yankee Rightfielder Roger Maris whacked his 32nd home run, thus zoomed 18 games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace in 1927, the year he reached his record...