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...free Italy from Fascism; Paul Hoffman, 73, managing director of the U.N. Special Fund, presented with the American Freedom Association's 1964 World Peace Award; Film Cowboy and Multi-millionaire Investor Gene Autry, 56, Novelist Pearl Buck, 71, Litton Industries Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with...
...from front desk to executive office. He took time out as president to run the successful Seattle World's Fair, but now is busier than ever inspecting new sites and blueprints for his growing network. Last week he was in Detroit to check out with Architect Minoru Yamasaki the designs for the 800-room Century Plaza that Western will open in Los Angeles next year. Carlson is also moving Western into Mexico and Canada, has just ordered a study for developing 1,000 acres of estate lands on Hawaii, later plans other hotels in Japan...
...four-story building, constructed with white pre-cast concrete, was designed by the internationally-known architect Minoru Yamasaki of Detroit. The building features a high degree of flexibility to make possible a large variety of elaborate experiments. The walls and ceilings are lined with "channels" of space, approximately two feet by three feet, through which piping of all sorts can be easily...
...equipment, office equipment, steel, glass and paint. To the delight of construction contractors, some firms are also brushing up their corporate images and increasing the comforts of their employees by investing in attractive new headquarters, such as Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.'s $20 million structure, designed by Architect Minoru Yamasaki...
Architect of the $350 million center is diminutive Minoru Yamasaki (TIME cover, Jan. 18, 1963), whose concrete Yama-Gothic traceries adorned the U.S. Science Pavilion at the Seattle World's Fair. Chosen by the sponsoring Port of New York Authority over a dozen of the nation's leading architects, Yama said: "The commission represented a once-in-a-lifetime, no, a once-in-two-lifetimes situation. To me the basic problem beyond solving the functional relationships of space is to find a beautiful solution of form and silhouette which fits well into lower Manhattan...