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...Rohe get only one building each (the Guggenheim Museum and the Seagram Building); Marcel Breuer's first structure (the new Whitney Museum) is only now going up; and Pier Luigi Nervi is relegated to a bus station at the north end of the island. Last week Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, one of the acknowledged deans of modern design, managed to get his foot in the door. It was for a room, some 4,350 sq. ft. of conference space, atop the new Institute of International Education. The view overlooking the United Nations gardens and the East River is good...
Working with a mock-up in Finland, Aalto passed on everything, down to the individual blue ceramic tiles that line the lobby, specially designed the laminated Finnish birch furniture and the reedlike gold-dipped light fixtures and lamps. Following his principle that a straight line is the shortest distance to boredom, Aalto made walls undulate outward to make the whole room a stage for the view, and paneled them like a painter with pale American ash. "Wood," says he, "is close to human experience." Showing off Aalto's virtuosity with wood, these slender columns are made of tiny wooden...
Instead of cheering, the Turkish Cypriots cursed. One shouted, "We are Turks, and we will die before we accept food from Makarios!" Another grumbled that the food was probably poisoned. The convoy commander, a young Finnish lieutenant of the U.N. peacekeeping force, was appalled. "Your attitude is inhuman," he said. "There are starving babies in Kokkina." A Turk replied, "The whole blockade is inhuman. We don't want Makarios to make propaganda by giving us food. We will leave it on the road or throw it into...
...Love announces an exciting new talent from Scandinavia: Jorn Donner, 31, a prolific writer and critic turned moviemaker and a Finnish protege of Ingmar Bergman. In his second full-length movie Donner has produced a satyr play, the story of an orgiastic courtship of a merry widow (Harriet Andersson) by a lecherous travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) that some will consider too sexplicit, but almost all will find continually and wildly hilarious...
Died. Sakari Tuomioja, 53, Finnish ranker and U.N. diplomat who proved himself a savvy, soft-spoken trouble-hooter in Laos in 1959, was picked by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last March to try mediating the Cyprus dispute; following a stroke on Aug. 16, just before he was ready to present his own peace proposal to the embattled Greek and Turkish Cypriots; in Helsinki...