Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manufacturers in the world who still make the old carbon-filament bulbs that gave the theater its soft, golden glow. He came across a piece of the original carpet, had it copied to the last detail. Rummaging through the basement, he found crates containing six stained-glass windows thought to have been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who had worked on the Auditorium as an 18-year-old apprentice, and who, to his dying day, considered the hall to be "the greatest room for music and opera in the world -bar none." Nobody in Chicago last week was about...
...organ perch atop the projection booth or a makeshift stage, and the sermon is piped into cars through window speakers. Among the most impressive of several new churches specially built for drive-in congregations are Schuller's Garden Grove Community Church (designed by Richard Neutra) and the glass-walled Trinity Reformed Church in Kent, Wash., which will accommodate up to 300 people in cars parked outside. Both Garden Grove and Trinity Reformed also serve worshipers seated in the nave...
...postage stamps and highway signs, and for good measure, aired her nominations for the "six worst man-made objects"-it was not such a daring list at that: Manhattan's Pan Am Building, Dali's Last Supper, the suburban builder's typical tacky house, some glass sculpture at Lincoln Center, a lamp with a violin as its base, and the faces on Mount Rushmore...
...became chairman in 1959), he strengthened Inland's tradition as a civic-minded company by playing a prominent part in the fight for Illinois' fair-employment law, pushing a redevelopment program for East Chicago and, in 1957, putting up Inland's 19-story glass-and-steel headquarters, one of the most striking additions to Chicago's Loop since the Depression...
...When the code was eased, Heublein, Inc., pioneered with a bottled-martini ad that included two cocktails on a table, a smiling young matron, and the phrase: "A wife's warmest welcome is well chilled." At first, like the Heublein lady, women could not be shown touching a glass or a bottle. Canadian Club's new approach indicates that women can share both the adventure and the whisky. The most recent Seagram gin ad shows a married couple holding martinis and bragging about "our secret" for making them well. Distillers try to keep the women wifely instead...