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...into the canyon walls." He therefore deprecates Manhattan's architectural landmarks-Lud-wig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building and Eero Saarinen's CBS building, for example-calling them "gigantic sculptures that do nothing for the city. Look at their plazas. Dead spaces!" Their tragic flaw, he insists, is that the architects designed the ground floor to relate to the building rather than to the street, where the activity...
Well and good. But Kaufman has his own flaw: he has made it quite clear that he does not know when to stop. All the pipes and wires in the new building lobby will be exposed and treated almost as if they were works of art. Like all whimsy, the joke can pall. "It's a little fun," says Kaufman. "It doesn't mean a damn thing-and we can always take it out. All we're trying to do is add levity to this somber city...
...handed it to the referee. Afterward, he said, "I sealed a cruncher," and then went bowling. Spassky and his team of analysts, meanwhile, studied the position long and hard that night looking for a flaw in Fischer's assault. Next day, when Fischer was late in arriving, the referee opened his envelope and made the move: a bishop check on the king. It was indeed a cruncher, and Spassky, without bothering to reply, tipped over his king to signify his defeat...
Important Flaw. Seymour was doubtless naive in thinking the Times would sit still once it knew that LIFE was getting exclusive information, or that the News would hold back after the Times broke the story. Rosenthal argued that "the public interest is generally best served by making information available rather than withholding it. The fact of an investigation that reaches into high places should be known." He pointed out that officials often request secrecy in their own interests rather than the public's, and added: "You can't be in a position of conspiring to keep something secret...
...Rosenthal's argument contains an important flaw. The Times story last month did not uncover corruption; it disclosed an investigation of corruption that was being diligently pursued. When pressed last week for his opinion about whether the inquiry had been damaged, Burnham replied: "I don't know. It's a matter of judgment, and Seymour has all the information." Seymour now expects perhaps ten indictments instead of the dozens he had originally anticipated. "If Leuci can produce ten cases," he lamented, "think how many cases ten others might have produced...