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...also make pills?" Striding through the well-lighted, air-conditioned plant, with its white walls and precisely placed blue machines (white and blue are Stuart Co.'s colors), he found a more than satisfactory answer. With an elliptical swimming pool and 30,000 sq. ft. of gold-roofed, pagoda-like recreation shelter in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid to be finished in two months, Pillmaker Hanisch has a building that combines beauty, efficiency, and the atmosphere of a country club...
...Cream-Cone Pagoda. Hoping that their city may become an Italian Lourdes, the people of Syracuse are busy preparing a new home for their Madonna. Twelve acres of land near Sicily's greatest Greek theater (a major tourist magnet) have been set aside for a shrine, to be called Il Tempio delle Lacrime (The Temple of Tears). After an international competition among more than 200 architects from 17 countries (including the U.S.'s Frank Lloyd Wright and France's Le Corbusier), a prize of $13,000 went to a pair of French architects for designing a latticed...
...vision, India becomes a setting instead of a place, Hindus and Moslems become figures in a tapestry instead of people, and life moves to the lute strings of poetry instead of the purse strings of necessity. As a free versifier, Author Godden ranks somewhat below another run-of-the-pagoda poet, Emperor Hirohito...
...unwarlike people of this Buddhist kingdom in the interior of the Indochinese peninsula relapsed into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances. But a peck of trouble is in store for the pleasure-loving Laotians...
...these days of dramatic top-level visits, it no longer seems to matter that leaders cannot agree. Everybody seems pleased enough just to meet and differ (the Russians are able to show their people how diligently they are seeking peace). At one party at the pagoda-like French embassy, Malenkov, Mikoyan and Molotov knocked back repartee with Mollet and Pineau. Having been asked by Malenkov to toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer...