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...there it is, fans, just like Martin Luther King said it would be--400 A-frame shelters made of plywood and plastic. And poor people from Mississippi and Alabama right before your very eyes...
...long Michigan Avenue Bridge crowded with traffic and pedestrians, a view of Michigan Avenue itself with gigantic figures of Playboy's Hugh Hefner and Mayor Richard Daley towering above the skyscrapers. Before visitors are done, they will be expected to stoop, sidle and squirm through and around painted plywood installations representing the Loop's elevated trains and a mock "Historic Arch" decorated with a shimmying Little Egypt and Skyscraper Pioneers Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler...
Living in 5-ft.-high igloos and plywood huts that are frozen-not nailed - together, the searchers often work in 30° F. temperatures and 35 m.p.h. winds that combine to produce an equivalent of -100° F. cold. Frostbite is a constant hazard, and flashlight batteries freeze into uselessness after ten minutes of exposure. Men returning from the crash site must be checked for radiation, have their garments vacuumed and their noses swabbed with cotton dabbed in alcohol-all part of the decontamination process...
...barns disappear, big lumber companies are rough-sawing plywood and mahogany siding to give a textured look. Even synthetic barn boards are on the way. The Abitibi Corp. recently brought out a hardboard paneling called "Barnboard," and, says an executive, "it's one of our biggest sellers. We're moving 3,000,000 ft. per month." Armstrong Cork has just put on the market its "Sturbridge paneling," made of compressed wood fibers, which is embossed by molds made from antique barn siding and is practically indistinguishable from the real thing...
From Cool to Hottest. Slowly, Tony's yard in South Orange began to fill with huge, geometric shapes. Except for The Black Box, Die, and a third piece called Free Ride, all were plywood mockups, built with the help of friends and coated with auto-body underpaint. (Like Henry Ford, Tony believes in letting the customer have any color, so long as it's black.) "I never thought of them as sculpture," says Tony today. "I thought of them as basic design." But other sculptors in other studios were building basic boxes and calling it art. A trend...