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Where the Taylor house is curvy, the Arthur W. Milam house in northern Florida is all right angles. Architect Paul Rudolph, another Gropius alumnus, designed a series of concrete block rectangles that turn the house's seaside exposure into a mammoth Mondrian. It is a straight place, but not all for show; the open-end geometry that ornaments the facade functions as a sunbreak and keeps the interior cool without cumbersome draperies. The house is built on seven levels that form a series of "living platforms," the lowest being a utility room, while the uppermost is a rooftop lookout...
...POLAND. Poland is the sick man of Eastern Europe. The country has mammoth debts abroad, and practically no money to pay them with. Overcentralization of planning and overemphasis on heavy industry have reduced its already weak economy to a shambles. Poor harvests and poorer planning have forced it to import huge amounts of grain, thus dangerously depleting its foreign currency reserves. Typical of Poland's plight is the condition of its national airline, LOT, which is being gradually grounded by a bizarre price structure, antiquated equipment, and the failure of Russia to come through with promised modern planes...
...earth-moving equipment, unfurled their geological maps, and began plotting the most daring construction job undertaken in Egypt since the Pharaohs built the Pyramids. Carved in the sandstone cliff above the Germans' camp are the 3,300-year-old monuments of Abu Simbel - two cavernous temples and ten mammoth statues built by Ramses II. The job: to cut these relics out of the cliff side and lift them, piece by piece, to be assembled on a higher location, where the waters will not reach them when the High Dam is completed in 1970 at Aswan, 180 miles downstream...
...with dozens of neighbors. One of every 66 Bombay residents has no home at all-except for the dark undersides of staircases, cattle sheds and sidewalks. Even the wide Marine Drive with its luxury apartments has its own huddle of desperate poor who have taken up residence among the mammoth concrete tetrapods scattered along the beach to protect the sea wall from the pounding waves of the monsoon...
...FLAG. He has apparently found personal liberty-at the expense of being at odds with the outside world. "I'm not interested in illustrating my time," he says. "Our age is one of science, of mechanism, of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage...