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Anderson, who as of 1970 owned more land in the United States than any other individual, and owned one of the nation's largest cattle operations, has built a reputation based on his patronage of educational, medical and cultural institutions and his rapid rise to power in the energy field...
...arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant that though architecture changes more slowly than painting, its fluctuations mean more. When they occur, clearly something is up. What happened to architecture in the 1970s may turn out to be the largest revision of opinion about buildings-what they mean, what they do, how they should look-since the first third of our century, the "heroic years" of Modernist architecture, when its terms were shaped by such men as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier...
...only architect to apply the historicist metaphors of Post-Modernism to a large corporate structure, still unbuilt, is Philip Johnson. And only his age (72) and prestige have enabled him to get away with it. The building in question is the corporate headquarters of the world's largest business, A T & T, to be built in midtown Manhattan. Given its cost of $110 million and the prominence of its site, the building could scarcely fail to provoke argument. But in addition Johnson and Burgee designed it as a summing-up of Post-Modernist building. This prospect fills some architects with...
...Orleans, Mass. Joining the Postum Co. (later renamed General Foods) in 1928, Mortimer revolutionized the American kitchen by his masterful marketing of such convenience foods as Birds Eye frozen vegetables, Tang breakfast drink and Maxwell House instant coffee. Though he helped build General Foods into the world's largest processed food company, with annual sales of $1.5 billion, Mortimer knew his industry's limits. "You cannot sell me on some new food called 'Glatsky' that will have all the nutrients of steak," he once said. "I want my steak...
...Summer School opens with its largest student body ever. Michael Shinagel, director of the Summer School, reveals that 74 per cent of the enrollees have yet to attain puberty. "Welcome to Camp Harvard," Shinagel grins...