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Found Objects. Born in Stockholm 40 years ago, he grew up in Chicago, where his father was Swedish consul general. "I lived a private, shy life," Oldenburg says, "built around an imaginary country I invented, called Neubern, located in the southern Atlantic." By the age of 16, he was spending a lot of time in burlesque houses. "Talking to the dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would...
McHarg grew up near Glasgow, hating the hideous city while exploring the handsome countryside around it. At 16, he decided to spend "a life giving to others the benison which nature gave to me." His model was Lancelot ("Capability") Brown, the 18th century landscape architect who transformed much of England into a showpiece of natural beauty before the onslaught of the Industrial Revolution. As McHarg fondly recalls, Brown was an ecological Faust. Once, on being asked to save Ireland, he grandly replied: "I have not yet finished England...
...advent of MIST, all the woman's doctor could have done was to seek help at random. Instead, he was able to telephone a central switchboard; the operator immediately put him through to MIST's pharmacologist, whose specialized knowledge may have saved the patient's life...
Some of the criticism, of course, comes from Establishment friends of Profumo, who has been working hard at a social-welfare settlement in London's East End since resigning from public life. Class considerations aside, many in Britain simply feel that Profumo has earned the right to be let alone. Some also raised a broader question of the citizen's right to privacy, a right not guaranteed under British law. As politicians talked about such a statute, freewheeling Fleet Street winced. But Lord Devlin, retiring chairman of Britain's Press Council, told the newspapers that the issue...
...implication that Pepsi, Royal Crown and other competitors are imitators. The slogan will be sung on radio spots by Soul Hero James Brown and the Fifth Dimension, among others. Coke's ad agency, McCann Erickson, has put together some highly imaginative TV commercials featuring still photos of "real life" in the U.S.-Coney Island, farms and hippies...