Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edge for the shadow line it would cast on the enclosed windows and how it would relate to the whole 38-floor-high vertical scale. An added ith of an inch, translated into bronze, projected to the building's full height, and multiplied by all the mullions involved, might mean added thousands of dollars in construction costs. Mies was unintimidated. As one of his friends said recently, he insisted on simplicity, no matter what it cost...
...favored church support of antiracist revolutionary movements and compensation for those "exploited" by capitalism. But in addition to its $500,000 allocation, the committee did call on member churches to give "a significant portion of their total resources to orga nizations of the racially oppressed." One way that churches might help was to make land available "free or at low cost" for community development...
...bring together mature musicians with different traditions and personal tastes who are capable of creating what Winwood calls "the great blend in music." "It's all coming together -blues, jazz, folk, pop, rock, everything," he says. The prospects are fascinating. If the trend keeps up, the ultimate Supergroup might one day consist of virtuosos on the sitar, five-string banjo and an electronic Moog, with an ex-Beatle thrown...
...question is not whether, but when, the overexuberant economy will be brought under control again by tight money, higher taxes and a surplus in the federal budget. Last week Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, admitted that a full year of tight money might be needed to slow price inflation. That would mean that the swift rise in the U.S. cost of living may not begin to slacken markedly until January. The date represents a considerable stretch in the Administration's former timetable for halting soaring prices. As recently as June, the White...
...under attack from other directions. The Associated General Contractors of America, whose members build most of the nation's roads, dams, factories and skyscrapers, has devised a strike insurance plan that may go into effect next year. "It would help stiffen the resistance of a little guy who might otherwise cave in," says William E. Dunn, executive director of the A.G.C. Labor Secretary George Shultz has been meeting since May with Harvard Economist John Dunlop and other experts to explore ways to contain construction costs. Shultz hopes to induce contractors and construction unions to use the Federal Mediation Service...