Word: modelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have already put to use some of the lessons learned from the West. In Moscow the housing men saw two model apartments that included such revolutionary (for Russia) features as kitchens with cabinets, wardrobe closets, modern bathrooms. Concluded Smith: "The Russians want to learn. They've asked for help. I can see nothing wrong in helping them. A well-housed people aren't likely to be led into war. The more of them that know us, the more of us that know them, the less chance...
Jordan officials, who inspected a model pit privy set up by ICA, quickly issued a formal request through diplomatic channels, found that ICA was eager to help out. The U.S. developed a plan to furnish three-inch-thick concrete slabs in the proper design. The Jordanians would dig the necessary pits, build optional surrounding structures...
...these freedoms in emergencies during the next four years. It denies Diem's demand to be allowed to dissolve the National Assembly at will-but provides him with a strong executive government at the expense of the legislative and judicial branches (following the U.S. more than the French model). The constitution's chief flaw, by Western standards: lack of provision for habeas corpus...
...Tivoli Gardens. Boy!" The younger Saarinen clinched his position as top U.S. architect with the $100 million, 25-building General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit, hailed by Architectural Forum as "an architectural feat which may be unique in our time." A model of modern architecture, the G.M. center has glistening expanses of aluminum, greenish glass and grey porcelain façades, interchangeable office paneling and windows "zippered in" with neoprene gaskets...
While poring over the model for G.M., Saarinen developed a good many answers on how to recapture "great awarenesses of the past." To pull the spread-out buildings together he created a 22-acre artificial lake, placed in it two fountains that pump more water than did Versailles'. To give each building its own identity, he developed glazed bricks in eleven colors ranging from deep crimson and tangerine-orange to chartreuse and royal blue. For the strong vertical accent, almost a signature of Saarinen's work, he erected a gleaming, stainless-steel water tower rising 132 ft. from...