Word: imperiale
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Savagery replaced harmony with nightmarish suddenness. One evening white Angelenos had nothing to worry about but the humidity. The next - and for four nights after that - marauding mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts pil laged, burned and killed, while 500 po licemen and 5,000 National Guardsmen struggled vainly...
Died. Sir John Hanbury-Williams, 73, longtime (1946-62) chairman of Courtaulds, Ltd., Britain's largest manufacturer of synthetic fibers (sales: $840 million), who as managing director in the 1930s led the firm into the production of nylon and cellophane, saw it fall on hard times in the 1950s...
From Canton, Malraux went on to Peking and spent four days browsing in antique shops and visiting the Imperial Palace and the Temple of Heaven. There was also a three-hour chat with China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi; Malraux blandly called it a tour d'horizon that...
Sense of Purpose. A frontier such as Viet Nam is always "dangerous," said Fairlie. "It is where interests meet, and may collide. It is where the claims of others seem to be strongest, and one's own claims most open to question. But frontier wars are the inescapable moments...
Yoshimura set out with "passion, sincerity and artistic fervor" to achieve "the finest possible space effect through the simplest possible composition." While using modern materials like steel and concrete, he hoped to build "a new palace for Japan so elevated in grace and dignity that it will be worthy of...