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...than at Cranbrook that "architecture is the mother of the arts," as architects are fond of saying. Among the works created under the academy's aegis: the sculpture of Carl Milles, Tony Rosenthal, Harry Bertoia and others; the rugs and wall hangings of Eliel Saarinen's wife Loja, his daughter Pipsan and Marianne Strengell; and the furniture and furnishings of Charles and Ray Eames, Bertoia and Eero Saarinen. Says Met Curator Miller: "Cranbrook's artists all conceived their work in an architectural context and believed in the totality of design from the largest to the smallest detail...
Peru lost an estimated $40 million, chiefly in cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does...
Voices of Disapproval. Students cheered the election promise but not Yerovi, whom they viewed as a symbol of the hated oligarchy. In Guayaquil, Cuenca and Loja, they stormed government buildings and held them for hours. Nevertheless, Yerovi went calmly ahead and took the oath of office as Ecuador's 57th president. "I have heard voices of disapproval for my presence here," he said in his inaugural address. "I would like them to know my point of view." With that Yerovi promised peace, austerity and economic stability. Meantime, students outside were chanting on: "People, yes! Yerovi...
...ECUADOR Volunteers will teach their specialties in universities and normal schools in Ambato, Gusysquil, Loja and Quito. They, and their co-professors, will be responsible to the Ministry of Education...
...station and National Museum) and town planner (Helsinki, and Canberra, Australia). He set up headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors and guests: Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky, Critic Julius Meier-Graefe, Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil von Mannerheim, Composer Jean Sibelius...