Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...square roof upheld by only eight burnished-steel columns. Mies has carried out his concept with subtlety. The columns, for instance, are tapered ever so slightly toward the top-as are the Parthenon's classical Doric columns. Although the museum's 6-ft.-thick roof looks perfectly flat, it too is designed to deceive the eye. The center has been slightly raised so that a disproportionately large share of the weight may be directed outward onto the columns...
...three pros. To get past Okker, a dogged retriever and a swift, agile shotmaker, Ashe had to play his best tennis ever. He hit 26 service aces, prompting Old Pro Pancho Gonzales to marvel that Arthur's cannonball was "the fastest serve since my own." Ashe's flat, accurate backhands were no less ferocious, drawing raves of "fantastic" and "tremendous" from another old master, Don Budge. Okker prolonged the contest as much as he could, but finally stood helpless as Ashe ran out the last game at love. Then Ashe walked off the court and embraced his father...
...equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault bar at 17 ft. 9 in. to break the world...
...meter dash was the real sizzler. The third-place finisher, Stanford Graduate Larry Questad, tied Tommie Smith's world mark of 20 sec. flat. Smith himself, who finished second, was clocked in 19.9 sec. The winner: New York's John Carlos, who turns on for races by listening to soul music. He broke the tape in 19.7 sec.-a full .3 sec. off Smith's old record...
...this second-rate souvenir "For export only." Aznavour's tragicomic twinkle shines through in such films as Shoot the Piano Player, but here he is required mostly to moon and bleat. Finally, the girl tearfully returns to her pad in London and the wife cheerfully returns to her flat in Paris. To explain his behavior, Aznavour tells a friend: "It's never too late to act twelve years old." That is true only...