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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Center. Actually, the times have changed more than Aalto. His use of traditional materials-wood, brick, copper-and rough textures now seems a welcome antidote to too much slickness and gloss. Aalto still insists as firmly as ever: "Architecture-the real thing-is only to be found when man stands in the center...
...fellow architects doubt that there will ever be an Aalto school of architecture. "How can there be?" one asks. "You can't copy Aalto. When he comes up against a new problem, he finds a new solution...
...change hit the auto industry. Out from Detroit and into 7,200 Chevrolet showrooms this week rolled the radically designed Corvair, first of the Big Three's new generation of compact cars. Smaller and simpler than Detroit's chromespun standards, the Corvair is like no other model ever mass-produced in the U.S.; its engine is made of aluminum and cooled by air, and it is mounted in the rear. To Chevrolet's folksy, brilliant General Manager Edward N. Cole, 50, who is as square and compact (195 Ibs., 5 ft. 9 in.) as a Corvair...
...replied with cool confidence: "I just happen to have some plans for expanding Chevrolet engineering, and I'm ready to show them any time you wish." G.M. appreciates that kind of action. Quipped Charlie Wilson to Cole: "I'll bet that's the first time you ever had your plans approved without submitting them." Cole's staff grew to 2,900 engineers...
Five Memorials. Wingate's Burma raiders were called the Chindits (a mispronunciation of the Burmese chinthé, lion), and in their first thrust against the Japanese they lost 800 out of 3,000 men. His second Chindit campaign began far more successfully, but no one will ever know how it would have developed. Early in the operation, Wingate was killed in the crash of a U.S. plane. Military men still argue the value of Wingate's tactical ideas. The U.S. borrowed them for Merrill's Marauders (TIME, April 30) with equally inconclusive results. In this able...