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Curves & Squares. For Manhattan Physician Howard Taylor, Architect John M. Johansen has built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough...
Rewards & Penalties. The Pentagon, after months of experimenting with various incentive contracts, in January will begin a system that will evaluate and mathematically rate the way defense companies perform on all noncompetitive contracts. Such contracts cover 60% of defense spending, and all the big-ticket hardware from Nike to Nautilus. The new system, devised by McNamara's deputy assistant, Graeme C. Bannerman, 53, will award extra profits to a contractor who stays within his bid (contractors now frequently run well over bids), delivers on time, finances the job without the help of Government money, contributes his own technology...
...mistake" to save money by slowing down U.S. space programs, predicted the Russians would make "spectacular efforts" in space "in the coming months." On other days last week, the President: > Named retired Navy Captain William Robert Anderson, 41, the man who in 1958 skippered the nuclear submarine Nautilus on man's first voyage under the polar icecap, to head up the not-yet-existent National Service Corps, sometimes referred to as the domestic Peace Corps. Until such time as Congress passes the President's National Service Corps bill, Anderson-no kin to Admiral George Anderson, who was fired...
...dives. Her skipper, Lieut. Commander John Wesley Harvey, 35, decided that she was ready for the maximum test. None of this was new to him. An Annapolis graduate (eighth in the 696-member class of '50), he logged three years and 100,000 miles aboard the nuclear submarine Nautilus and got Thresher as his first command just three months ago. Methodically, Harvey and his crew prepared for the critical deep-dive trials that would take Thresher down as far as she was built...
...pleased Guggenheim, who built his nonobjective collection around Kandinsky. It would have brought a wry smile to Wright, who knew that crowds would first flock into the Guggenheim Museum only to see what Wright had wrought but would eventually come to see a show perfectly suited to its chambered-nautilus setting. And surely it would have delighted Kandinsky, who once wrote: "I would like above all an exhibit as comprehensive as possible; quantity aids the discovery of inner meanings...