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...Capitol Hill, giant cranes swing slabs of gleaming marble onto the façade of a new, $70 million House Office Building. On Independence Avenue, Government girls are still learning their way around the corridors of "FOB 6,"* an ultramodern Federal Office Building housing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Near tranquil Thomas Circle, huge holes in the ground mark the sites for two multimillion-dollar hotels. In the nation's capital, these and scores of other scenes bear testimony to a dramatic fact: Washington, D.C., is getting the greatest face lifting in its history...
...Became a Bore. Today, says Jones, "a new specter stalks architecture, the monotony of endless glass façades." Among the old masters, Le Corbusier has turned from the '"pure prism" of his youth to an architecture that is pure sculpture. Other architects, each in his own way, are searching for riches the purists would have found intolerable. "Our architecture," said the late Eero Saarinen, "is too humble. It should be prouder, much richer and larger than we see it today...
Born. March 1, 1918, on his fa ther's cattle ranch near Sao Borja, Rio Grande do Sul - next door to the ranch of the legendary strongman of the gauchos, Getulio Vargas...
...happened, the policeman on guard assured Curator Jacqueline Martial-Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three floors just to be sure. But two or three hours later, the thieves somehow climbed up the lighted, ornate façade of the museum,*sneaked through a small window on the second floor, spirited away six canvases from one gallery and two from another while Mme. Martial-Salme and her husband slept a few yards away. Wailed the show's organizer. Leo Marchutz, next day: "Cezanne would be furious...
Beneath the façade of order, the Dominican Republic left by Trujillo is a political vacuum, and its economy is near collapse. As he grew older, Trujillo embarked on grandiose projects of no merit, lost $35 million on an international fair that flopped in 1956, drained away another $50 million for arms in the space of two years. Trujillo compounded his growing troubles by a foolish and abortive plot to assassinate Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt in Caracas last June. As a result, Trujillo was ostracized by all the other nations of the hemisphere...