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...trends are many, as evidenced by four dissimilar artists showing this week-Wayne Thiebaud, George Segal, Fairfield Porter and Sidney Goodman. Yet they all agree that their realism is in no sense a return to the past...
Architect Nathaniel Owings of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill pronounces Fuller "the most creative man in our field; he's the only one that's dealing with something that's totally dissimilar to what everybody else is doing. He's tried to find out how nature really works." Architect Minoru Yamasaki calls him "an intense, devoted genius, whose mind, which is better than an IBM machine, has influenced all of us." Italy's famed Architect Gio Ponti feels that Fuller is "not only a romantic pioneer who sees 50 years ahead, but a genius who has already...
...Burns opened another college that appears to be unique in the U.S.-one teaching everything in Spanish. The goal of Elbert Covell College is "education for life in the Americas in the 20th century." It will stress math, science, business and schoolteaching. Equally important, it will throw together 250 dissimilar students-two-thirds of them from Latin America, the rest Americans fluent in Spanish. Already on hand are 60 students from the U.S. and 14 Latin American countries. Faculty is still a problem. Covell has spent months trying to find a Spanish-speaking physicist, for example. "The very difficulty...
...nation's new mood is that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly...
Competition & Collision. The backgrounds of Cleveland's newspaper antagonists could hardly be more dissimilar. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, quit school in the seventh grade to work as a $3-a-week copy boy. At 20, he was city editor of the Press, the oldest paper in the Scripps-Howard chain (founded in 1878). Thirty years Vail's senior, he still works like a dray horse, turning up at 6 every morning and averaging five hours of sleep a night. "We have a lot of young people on this paper...