Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon was furious. The city's new motto: "Let's put the center back in the middle." Citizens fired off letters to Washington, and Lebanon Mayor Raymond Schuette snapped peckishly: "We just don't see this as something funny...
...since the visit of Robert Briscoe, Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, had a foreign visitor so quickly found a role in domestic politics. Some Deep South Democrats boycotted his speeches to Congress. Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, crowded for reelection, made much of him when at week's end Nkrumah began his tour of the U.S. in Harlem. For his part, Nkrumah, laughing with a strong man's sympathy, hoped that he had given American Negroes a cause for pride by personifying the new Africa's promise of dignity in world affairs...
...radio commercial ever produced"), it liltingly celebrates the joys of Omaha and only incidentally those of Butter-nut Coffee, which is packed there. After the orchestra swung through Freberg's lighthearted, tuneful spoof of Oklahoma!-type musicals, even skeptics who had come to hoot remained to hum. The mayor is recommending the adoption of the rollicking Whatta They Got in Omaha? as the civic anthem, Capitol Records has put out a recording with I Look in Your Face and I See Omaha on the flip side. More important, from Freberg's point of view, Omaha! has already sold...
...uniform and commandeered a squad of soldiers by the simple method of walking up to them and ordering them to follow him. Barking "Los" with all the crisp confidence of a drill instructor, he led his band on a raid of Koepenick's town hall, arrested the bumbling mayor and treasurer, walked off with the contents of the town till. Later, after Voigt gave himself up in return for a promise of getting his passport, the Kaiser was told about the escapade. Chuckling appreciatively, the Kaiser, according to the film, commented: "See, that's discipline...
Niemeyer's first major project of his own was commissioned by the man who was then mayor of Belo Horizonte, Juscelino Kubitschek. The project: Pampulha, a new suburb for Belo Horizonte (pop. 600,000). Says Niemeyer: "Juscelino was a perfect client. He told me what he wanted and gave me complete artistic liberty to carry it out." Projecting Le Corbusier's ideas, Niemeyer combined respect for Brazil's climate, terrain and Latin tempo with his own love for the freeflow form. The curving, tiled lines of the restaurant, the soaring yacht club and casino, the many-arched...