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Basic Allowance. Speaking at a National Industrial Conference Board meeting in Manhattan, Miller assailed the "unsatisfactory progress" of the nation's existing welfare system by pointing out that there are some 30 million low-income Americans, of whom fewer than 8,000,000 receive public assistance. Present programs, said Miller, "are failing to reach many of those who need help most. Some of the poor now receive help from two or more programs, while others in desperate need receive nothing...
Some faculty members argue that the 560 cutoff level is ludicrously low and that Harvard should make up its mind whether to take the requirement seriously or abandon it entirely...
Thonet (pronounced like sonnet) was a German industrial designer of the nineteenth century whose chairs revolutionized the idea of form in furnishings. Thonet was also concerned with processes of manufacture, so his well-designed furniture was made available to all for the first time at low prices. In this marriage of functionalism and craftsmanship, Thonet anticipated the 20th century precepts of the Bauhaus...
Katayama said that the heights of the holding vehicle for the chairs were kept low so as not to interfere with the space of the roof area and over-power the chairs. The pattern of lines incised into the cement floor is taken into account and even the accordion walls holding windows and louvres at the back of the room are used to display furniture. All is appropriate and sufficient, no more. Katayama takes van der Rohe's maxim "less is more" as his own--his aim is to parry and eliminate, always saying with the barest essentials more than...
...Ford has not neglected to attack the present problems: in addition to the $11 million for endowment, Ford has pumped more than $13 million into urban research and action programs during the past year. But at a time when the United States Congress has relegated urban programs to a low priority when handing out funds, large foundations like Ford must assume even more responsibility in financing short-term efforts. City and state governments, even if they do have available funds, will not support politically unpopular programs such as the Ford-backed project on racial integration at the School of Education...