Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...range of the architectural profession, from Mies van der Rohe purists to Frank Lloyd Wright ("The only embassy that does credit to the United States"). Said one U.S. architect, just back from India: "The effect is of the Parthenon, with the pierced marble screen of Delhi's Red Fort and the white of the Taj Mahal. In the sun it's going to tell a terrific story." Cracked Frank Lloyd Wright: "Why not call it Taj Maria...
...telephoned Executive Editor Charles E. Green and-as Green put it-"wondered what the paper would think." Replied the editor: "Hell, do what's right." At week's end Defendant Press, an accountant by trade had been cleared of any rape charge, but he was in the Fort Hood stockade, still" facing trial on the first girl's charge thai he had forced her into sex acts. On the same day that it reported plans for Press': trial, the Statesman ran a Page One account of a speech by Editor Green arguing "the right of jurors...
...From Fort Antoine, a 47-mm. cannon boomed the first of 101 saluting shots, and 2,500 Monegasques began to celebrate. Church bells pealed, teen-agers sang and snake-danced about Monaco's pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...
DECLINE HERE? DON'T BELIEVE IT! headlined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Page One last week. Other newspapers from Seattle to Savannah were doing their unlevel best to bull their way through one of the nation's biggest-and most botched-running stories: the recession. Though more than 50.000 workers are out of jobs in Georgia's four largest cities, the Atlanta Journal has zealously kept the state's slump off the front page, and, until last week, even banned the word recession from the paper...
...Best of Everything. Pilot Jackson got his divinity degree at Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1951, was assigned to Japan, spent two years learning the language. Last fall a group of U.S. military people, calling themselves the Southern Baptist Military Fellowship, asked Jackson to help them organize an English-speaking Baptist church in Tokyo. The Jacksonian result: a whirlwind of preaching, fund-raising and organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church...