Word: masters
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...atmosphere is invariably one of warmth, and the architectural scale is everywhere measured by human dimensions. Architect Ulrich Franzen is a master of the broken line and the ingratiating curve. Nothing is rigid and antiseptic. Masculinity and femininity thrust, parry, yield and wed in a superlative marriage of craft and art. The main theater itself, a semicircular urn of intimacy seating 798, is a kind of womb with seats. Decked out in soft brown and nuzzling together like cattle, the rows of theater seats are concentrated reminders that the playgoer is in an edifice indigenous to the Southwest, a vivid...
Died. Arnold Zweig, 81, master of German letters whose 82 novels and plays dealt mainly with the intrinsic evils of war and its impact on the human soul; after a long illness; in East Berlin. From his experiences as a German soldier in World War I, Zweig fashioned his most famous novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, an evocative, existential account of a soldier executed as an example to the Kaiser's troops. Expelled as a Jew by Hitler in 1933, Zweig spent 15 years in Palestine, where he wrote The Crowning of a King, a tale of intrigue...
Although Russia and the U.S. recognized the role that rockets could eventually play in space exploration, both nations were more immediately concerned about arming themselves with the most devastating military weapon: the nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Because U.S. scientists had already begun to master the art of packing enormous power into small nuclear warheads, the Redstone, Jupiter and Atlas missiles designed to carry them were only of modest size. The Russians, who were behind in nuclear technology, had only more primitive and massive warheads to use; they were forced to build enormous rockets to loft them. But the Soviet...
Borman has been air-oriented from youth, when he built model airplanes and sold newspapers to pay for flying lessons. A West Pointer who opted for the Air Force, he earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Caltech, broke an eardrum during a practice dive-bombing run and for a while was certain that he could never again take to the air-let alone fly to the moon. But when his eardrum healed completely, he resumed flying, and now has a total of more than 5,400 hours of flying time. Between training sessions...
Anders is a service brat who was born in Hong Kong, while his father was there as a Navy commander. After graduating from Annapolis, he switched to the Air Force, won his master's degree in nuclear engineering and became a flying instructor. Until he was forced to abandon it because of his time-consuming space training, Anders owned a Cessna 172 and flew it every time he got a chance. Unusually conscientious, he once won a good-driver's award after an Albuquerque policeman saw him stop his car, remove a cinder block from a crowded highway...