Word: forwarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bombs, but devoutly religious Lewis Strauss, a longtime president of New York's Congregation Emanu-El, is a man who opposed the decision to drop A-bombs on Japan in 1945, worked devotedly to promote the U.S.'s Atoms for Peace program, and says: "I look forward to the day when there won't be any military use [for atomic energy]. It may not come in my lifetime, but it will come...
...Ministry of Housing at last decided that Barbican should be turned into an oasis of apartment buildings, shops, schools and "open spaces." A year later the City Corporation set up a 16-man Barbican committee headed by a forward-looking city councilor named Eric Wilkins, 57. A team of young architects was hired to draw up a master plan for a combined residential, business and cultural center, largely for middle-class people who work in the City. Last week Londoners were trooping into Guildhall to view $56 million worth of possible things to come...
Prophet ($16,000), a 7½ft. figure of Monel metal covered with nickel-silver by Dentist-turned-Sculptor Seymour Lipton, is both warning and challenge. "I was thinking of Isaiah," Lipton explains. "The work suggests a strident person, a gesture of stepping forward. But the work is also a challenge to the observer to become involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work...
...name Ile de France from every part of the ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...
...Douglas solution: small streams of air were diverted from the engine's compressors and shot downward and forward. The air jets hit the runway, blow away the converging air that would feed a vortex. No vortex forms, and indigestible objects stay on the ground...