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...Architectural Commission, including those who will live in and use the new buildings as well as experts in design and engineering, to conduct open competitions for the selection of architects and plans. This may not be the easiest way to find good buildings but it is certainly less haphazard than the technique used now. In any event, the administration should give some serious new thought to the physical estate it is presently creating...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Incinerator Gothic | 5/20/1963 | See Source »

...industrious Ibo tribes; and the West, richest and most advanced of all three, whose Yoruba tribesmen are Nigeria's most sophisticated citizens. As big as Texas and Oklahoma combined, with some 45 million inhabitants-give or take 10 million-Nigeria seemed less a nation than a concatenation, a haphazard creation of British colonists who ruled it for 60 years and dubbed it the "white man's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Nation on Trial | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...standard method for synthesizing high-energy chemical fuels is to mix the ingredients and heat them. The heated molecules move faster, and a few of them move so fast that when they collide they stick to each other, creating new compounds with built-in energy. Instead of this haphazard system, says Vice President Milton Farber of Arizona's Rocket Power Inc., it is better to slam the molecules at each other with precisely enough energy to make them stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry: Ion Synthesis Makes Better Rocket Fuels | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...then, not every book is made to be read all at once, certainly not You Can Tell a Harvard Man. For this book is a compilation of wisecracks, some good, some bad; it is a haphazard anthology of anecdotes from the lives of Richard Bissell and Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: But You Can't Tell Him Much | 11/21/1962 | See Source »

Miller had a feeling in that the earlier book for the humane potential world he described. Here, however, he loses his drama precisely because he fails to treat revolutionary Cuba with more than haphazard obesiance to its real promise...

Author: By Fred Gardner, | Title: Residue Of Hatred In Havana | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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