Word: interiorly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken each year by government and military officials. U.S. refrigerators and air conditioners meant for hospitals end up in generals' homes; troop commanders collect the "phantom pay" of soldiers whose deaths in combat go unreported to Saigon. For $675, a well-to-do youth can buy an Interior Ministry "diploma" that certifies him as a government spy, thus exempting him from army service. A trick currently in favor with provincial chiefs is to blow up a provincial bridge, blame the Viet Cong, and win a fat construction contract from Saigon...
...Ponte Vedra, Fla., 20 miles east of Jacksonville, is a resort that combines private houses and a resort hotel. The houses are in the $40,000-$150,000 price range and include a cubistic concrete and glass extravaganza designed by Paul Rudolph. Many of them have interior-court swimming pools, open to the sky but screened against flying insects. Aside from a Robert Trent Jonesdesigned golf course, featuring a famed 9th hole where the player must drive the ball across 100 ft. of water to a green surrounded by five sand traps, Ponte Vedra has its own 10,000-acre...
Hanging Gardens. Though basically a rectangle, Rudolph's $4,000,000 factory presents a procession of profiles as the viewer walks around it. By externalizing what most architects bury within a building-staircases, heating pipes and air ducts-the architect has both opened the interior to freer use and the exterior to a greater play of light. A vast entrance stairway openly sweeps up to a mezzanine in baroque splendor, inviting visitors from a nearby parkway...
...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...
Stewart Udall, LL.D., Secretary of the Interior. You speak for conservation as no one has done since the days...