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...cause of the International Style now began to rebel against it. "I became bored with glass boxes. Of course, I love my own house, but I no longer find it interesting to draw straight lines." Johnson began to look for inspiration anywhere-the ancient Greeks, the baroque masters, the Orient, the peasant cottages of Europe. "We are all rebelling," says he, "but we have all picked different ways to rebel against the International Style. I think I am the only one who is history-oriented...
...Rangoon last week Burmese customs men proudly reported their "biggest haul since 1952": the discovery of $31,000 in smuggled gold aboard the Dolpheverett, a Liberian-registered freighter operated by California's Everett-Orient Line. In Calcutta the Dolpheverett's sister ship Rutheverett is being confiscated outright by the Indian government. After a week-long search during which they all but dismantled the ship, Indian customs officers uncovered aboard the Rutheverett $700,000 worth of gold stashed away in hidey-holes ranging from the ship's garbage bin to secret compartments...
...ORIENT ROUTE OVERHAUL for jet age will provide major expansion of U.S. Pacific flag routes if CAB and President approve. Six U.S. airlines will get new or expanded routes, with biggest gains going to Pan American and Northwest, the only U.S. lines now flying west to Asia...
Thurs., June 23 Presidential Mission (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Ike in the Orient...
Coronary artery disease, medical scientists have long suspected, is closely related to diet. So is diabetes. These suspicions have now been strengthened by close observation of one of the Orient's most ancient communities, preserved like a fly in amber for some 2,500 years. The observed are Jews who migrated from Yemen to Israel; the observers are European-trained immigrants to Israel...