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BRIGHT RED SKYSCRAPER will be built in midtown Manhattan on site of Carnegie Hall. Real-Estate Man Louis J. Glickman, who bought Carnegie Hall for $5,000,000, will raze famed music center, start construction in 1959 of $22 million 44-story office tower to be faced with red-porcelain-covered steel panels...
Pearl S. Buck is still presiding over her China with the air of a lady dispensing oolong from a rare porcelain tea service. In her 43rd book, she subdues the storm over Asia to the dimensions of one of her teacups. The conflict between Communist China and the West is symbolized by the MacLeods of Raleigh, Vt. Gerald MacLeod, although not a Communist, lives in Peking and is president of its Communist-run university. Wife Elizabeth MacLeod lives in Vermont with their son Rennie and her father-in-law. Old Mr. MacLeod, who was once adviser to the Boy Emperor...
Above the visitors was a two-ton chandelier of solid bronze inlaid with nickel; around them were porcelain and plaster tiles of blue, green and gold in geometric designs. Verses from the Koran and the 99 formal Arabic titles of Allah gleamed in gold inscriptions on the walls and ceilings. Outside, the sun sparkled on the crescent that tops the minaret 160 ft. above Washington's stately Massachusetts Avenue. The $1,250,000 mosque (built with the contributions of 15 Moslem nations) stands canted to the street in order to face Mecca.*The world's only air-conditioned...
...high, the Sinclair idea would save mining machinery, possibly produce lighter oil for the pipelines. In Denver, the Oil Shale Corp. has a small new pilot plant designed to test the Swedish Aspeco retort process; this distills out the oil by whirling crushed shale mixed with superheated porcelain and aluminum balls in a rotating drum, also by-produces natural...
...form to replace "the ugly clutter of cages and legs going in different directions" is based on the design of a police street sign. By carefully calculating the base area of his new chair, he achieved the stability of four legs without weighting the bottom of the porcelain-enameled aluminum pedestal. The plastic seats are of tulip-shaped organic design, can have richly colored cushions to temper modern simplicity with elegance. The tables, in neutral colors, will be topped with marble or fine wood. Saarinen's new pieces are scheduled to go into mass production at Knoll Associates...