Word: nippon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Katayama was trained in Japan, worked as a director of the Nippon Design Center, and later was with the Geigy Corporation's design studios in Basle--there and in his work here he credits as a pervasive influence the Japanese tradition of katachi, the merger of form and shape, the inseparable attention to both form and process which makes him so perfect a designer of the Thonet exhibit...
...expected to phase out unprofitable manufacture of heavy generators and transformers, concentrate on telecommunications and electronics, in which the company can compete against such foreign firms as ITT and General Telephone & Electronics Corp. of the U.S., Europe's Philips and Siemens A.G. and Japan's Nippon Electric Co. Ltd. "The future," insists the young executive, "lies with the giants." And Arnold Weinstock obviously classes himself with the giants...
...Robert V. Hansberger, president, Boise Cascade; John D. Harper, president, Aluminum Co. of America; Earl B. Hathaway, president, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; H. J. Heinz II, chairman, H. J. Heinz Co.; Robert C. Hills, president, Freeport Sulphur Co.; Edward B. Hinman, president, International Paper Co.; Dr. Koji Kobayashi, president, Nippon Electric Co.; Rudolph A. Peterson, president, Bank of America; Frederik Jacques Philips, president, N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; David Rockefeller, president, Chase Manhattan Bank; Dr. Samuel Schewizer, chairman, Swiss Bank Corp.; Dr. Gerd Tacke, director, Siemens A.G.; Abderrahman Tazi, executive director, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Henry S. Wingate...
...Here to Infinity. To sculpture buffs, most of the U.S. and European artists' names are familiar, but Curator Fry has made a determined effort to provide rarely seen examples of their work. Still more newsworthy is the display of the seven examples of Japanese sculpture, which show that Nippon's advanced technology and freedom from European tradition have produced some sculptors with slates as clean as any in the U.S. The Port, an internally lit blue and transparent plastic piece by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and the giant slab of plastic Swiss cheese called Blue Dots by Noriyasu Fukushima have...
...Munemori behind the barbed wire of a relocation center at Manzanar, Calif. The American Legion canceled the charters of all Japanese American posts. In California in 1942, State Attorney General Earl Warren, campaigning for Governor, urged voters to keep Japanese out of California "so long as the flag of Nippon is flying over the Philippines...