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Faithful to the intentions of Architect Eero Saarinen, who died fortnight ago at 51, his partners will move the offices of Eero Saarinen & Associates from its longtime headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Hamden, Conn., sometime next month. Still on his drawing boards in Bloomfield were the daring, Finnish-born form giver's final designs, among them plans for a 37-story Manhattan headquarters for the Columbia Broadcasting System. "Eero was especially excited about this design," recalled Saarinen Partner John Dinkeloo. "He felt he was going back to the tradition of Louis Sullivan and making a step forward from...
...first guinea pig, in 1958, was his daughter Venn, who was then' two years and seven months old. At four years and five months, she now types letters to friends and reads Lassie stories to her baby sitters. After Venn came 35 other children, many of them from Hamden Hall, a suburban New Haven private school, which now plans to set up a sizable Moore-style lab. On the evidence so far, Hamden Hall may have to revamp its entire primary school curriculum. One girl of not quite four read at third-grade level after Moore's training...
...this point my techniques are laboratory toys," says Moore. "They are expensive and too cumbersome to be of immediate practical value." But New Jersey's Thomas A. Edison Research Laboratory is now designing automated equipment to simplify the technique. Hamden Hall's parents are already sold. Says one father: "I was waiting for my boy to grow up before I spent time with him. Now, I'm sorry when he goes...
JUNE CHAPLIN Hamden, Conn...
...keeping and handling dogs for medical researchers. The accusation was that on moving dogs to Yale, he had given them injections of barbiturates to knock them out. Nub of the state's case was that Iannucci (who once ran something that he called the Junior Animal Shelter in Hamden, just outside New Haven) had bought animals from dog wardens in adjacent towns for $2 or $3 each, had then sold them to the Yale bureau of purchases, which knew nothing of their origin, for an average...