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Space & Speedometers. Motorola was founded in 1928 in a one-room Chicago loft, made mostly car radios until World War II, when it developed the walkie-talkies that became almost as universal as the Jeep. It still outsells all competitors in two-way radios for police cars, fire trucks, taxicabs and other vehicles, is also developing sophisticated models for space that will carry voices across 250,000 miles...
...seemed to care that Comsat's officers had put red warning flags all over the issue. Chairman Leo D. Welch and President Joseph Charyk cautioned that Comsat was a chancy venture that would not loft a satellite for another year or a profit for at least three. But buyers were motivated by a sense of patriotism, a desire to become charter members in an exciting enterprise, and the solid conviction that any company backed by the Government and by American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was ultimately bound to succeed. Said one Manhattan investor: "I'm buying this stock...
Somebody Up There is not distributing the talent very evenly. While many an artist is going mad trying to make a loft and a set of oils stretch into a career, the Wyeth family of Chadds Ford, Pa., moves imperturbably into its third generation of artistic luster. A new show at Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, lets viewers see the romantic illustrations of Grandfather N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), the universal evocations of Father Andrew (TIME cover, Dec. 27) and the prodigal realism of Andrew's son James, who is only...
Like many young instrument painters fitted in with New York, Mohan Samant, 37, lives at an unfashionable address in a loft building above a street thrumming with trucks. Unlike other young painters, he begins each day not at the easel but sitting shoeless and cross-legged atop a low podium, drawing out the eerie strains of his native Indian music on the sarangi, a chunky instrument fitted with 29 strings. Says the artist, who though an expatriate is ranked as one of his country's most modern painters, "I always felt at one with things that have a sense...
...test, which cost $4,125,000, is the new Berlin Philharmonic Hall, inaugurated last week after six years of construction on a site only 154 yds. from the Berlin Wall. Like modern atonal music, the hall is asymmetrical, a polygonal loft in concrete that from its mustard-colored exterior resembles a huge aluminum-roofed circus tent with stiff ridgepoles. Berliners hope that landscaping will mitigate its bareness, and stake the hall's claim to greatness on its interior...