Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dams as well as replacing low dams (that become useless when river waters are low) with high dams. The government also has a $1 billion roads program and plans for a new Tokyo reservoir that will require the sixth highest dam in the world and the biggest in the Orient (480 ft. high, 1,122 ft. long...
...objections of New York City's housing authorities (TIME, Aug. 10), a new Guggenheim Museum, shaped in a spiral that expands upward, will rise on the same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among the architectural landmarks on exhibition:¶A full-scale mock-up of the kind of house Wright designed at the turn of the century, which precisely forecast the flat-roofed ranch style of U.S. architecture at midcentury. It featured, among other things, a sunken corner hearth, floor-to-ceiling windows...
...expert on the Far East, having just returned from a year in the Orient, Fairbank held little hope for any basic agreement with Mao, or admission of China into the United Nations at the present time...
Originally entitled Red Dust and set in the Orient, Mogambo has now been converted into the latest in a series of technicolor African epics which includes King Solomon's Mines, The African Queen, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Following the example of its predecessors, the film devotes considerable footage to sweeping shots of the varied flora and fauna of Kenya and Tanganyika. Unfortunately, even a panoramic screen and stereophonic sound cannot destroy the feeling of having seen all this before. Leaping gazelles, prowling lions, and flamingos rising against an orange African sunset are getting just a little commonplace...
...southern flank. A poor nation, Turkey devotes almost 40% of its budget to its defenses, and counts the money well spent, for the nation mortally hates and fears the "Moskofs." Say the Turks: the only way a Moskof can get to Istanbul is by buying a ticket on the Orient Express...