Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, and this year will draw music lovers for a festival and a conference on contemporary music, featuring lectures by distinguished composers. Vail is a bustling new ski resort built to look like an Alpine village. Texas Financier John Murchison has built a home there, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson owns an apartment, and the resort is luring summer visitors with its gourmet restaurants, heated pools, and facilities for riding, hiking and fishing, and a jumping discotheque for the younger crowd...
Textured Platoons. Victor Lundy's IBM building in Cranford, N.J. (see over page), also goes all out for adornment. "I want my buildings to be exuberant," says the 42-year-old architect, who also is an abstract painter. His industrial structure too is a box, 200 ft. by 200 ft. square. But with its elaborate zigzag carapace of sand-pink precast concrete blocks, Lundy's building proclaims the architect's belief in sculptural architecture. "The building is sassy, square and solid," says Lundy. "It says IBM...
Blocky Mayan pyramids are only one of the images evoked by Lundy's broken wall that advances and retreats in disciplined platoons of texture. They also "express the complexity of an IBM machine," says the architect. Between and above, the gaps yield clerestories that make the building, says Lundy, "a jewel box that lets light in during the day and light out at night." Inside are multiple concrete trees that break up the interior into a garden, which is accentuated by the sunken atrium in the middle...
Fold It? The target was the liberal afternoon New York Post (circ. 337,556). Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 62, who has been increasingly concerned over the paper's financial condition, installed a punch-tape IBM computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down...
...bruise local sensibilities, and hanker to return to the center of power back at the home office. For this reason-and for a lot of others-U.S. companies are increasingly turning over control of their foreign outposts to European-bred local managers. Says Arthur K. Watson, chairman of IBM's international subsidiary: "It is far easier to develop company spirit in a European than it is for an American to develop an understanding of a foreign country's history, culture and customs - to say nothing of its language...