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...master form givers-the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto. Of the second generation, eight are singled out as leaders: Architects Marcel Breuer, Wallace K. Harrison, Philip C. Johnson, Richard J. Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Edward D. Stone, Engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and eying the future, the show leads to two major conclusions: 1) modern architecture has now clearly swept its early Beaux Arts enemies from the battlefield; 2) its architects, secure in their conquest, are moving...
...Buckminster Fuller's latest world of geodesic domes, already tapped by architects for everything from Union Tank Car Co.'s roundhouse to theaters, factories and banks, and soon to be used for the U.S. Trade Fair in Moscow. Bucky's latest, a 407-ft.-diameter dome for the Oklahoma City Arena, has acquired five saddle-shaped canopies, will shelter 15,000 spectators. Fuller confidently predicts a day when aircraft companies will turn out dome shelters for whole cities...
...simpers are no doubt the best of their kind in the motion picture business, but whereas her recent Hollywood directors (who know a good thing when they see one) have restricted Miss Schell's efforts almost exclusively to these two talents, M. Clement allows his star a fuller range of expression--with much more satisfactory results...
...sixth position, John Davis had only slightly more difficulty in defeating Ash Eldredge, 15-12, 17-15, 12-15, 15-11, and at eighth singles Wally Stimpson ran through Terry Fuller...
...board offers not only experience in the business world for those interested in later exploitation of materialistic tendencies, but an introduction to the people of the metropolitan area where they have been consigned for four years, and--incidentally--to a fuller understanding of the world outside the Ivory Tower and of human nature in general...