Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guido G. Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and New York City, Robert Goldman '59, of Winthrop House and Far Rockaway, N.Y., Thomas L. Gritzka '59, of Dunster House and Portland, Ore., John M. Gross '59, of Leverett House and Brookline, Victor W. Guillemin '59, of Leverett House and Oak Park, III., Robert C. Hartshorne '58, of Kirkland House and Cambridge, Gregory M. Harvey '59, of Kirkland House and Morristown, N.Y., Ralph H. Henderson '60, of Kirkland House and Pleasantville, N.Y., Thomas E. Hill Jr. '59, of Kirkland House and St. Paul, Minn., Daniel W. Howe '59, of Kirkland House...
...Ross Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...called "Lieber Meis-ter." "Form follows function," Sullivan insisted. "Form and function are one, and should be taken into the realm of the spiritual," young Wright replied, and struck out on his own. Soon adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves to enforce the sense of shelter. Taking the fireplace...
Famous or Notorious. By 1909 Wright was 40, and at the peak of his career. His Larkin Building in Buffalo had pioneered air conditioning, introduced the first metal-bound plate-glass doors, the first all-steel office furniture; with Unity Church in Oak Park, he had invented a whole vocabulary of cubist forms to express a new building material, poured concrete. Publication of his works in Europe created a sensation...
...time being-was reported by France's Dr. Henri Jammet to the United Nations in Manhattan. His subjects were six atomic scientists (five men and a woman) who had been exposed to normally fatal radiation in a reactor accident at Vinca, Yugoslavia's equivalent of Oak Ridge. The patients were flown to Paris, lodged in the Hopital Curie. The mildest case, estimated to have absorbed 400 r., got better with conventional treatment-blood transfusions, special diet, rigorous protection against infection. The other five, nauseated and vomiting, soon showed a dangerous drop in blood-cell counts, and Radiologist Jammet...