Word: projected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painted Slums. What the Dominicans do not like to talk about is the poverty. They show visitors the new housing project across the river from Ciudad Trujillo, but it is very small potatoes compared with the slums that make up the bulk of the city. The hovels are all freshly painted, generally an ocher or a sky blue or sea green, with a barn-red trim framing the doors and windows. That's the way El Benefactor wants it, and everybody paints once or twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks...
This vision of the future is not science fiction but a serious project announced this week by Raytheon Manufacturing Co., maker of all types of radar. Raytheon believes it has achieved the longtime dream of engineers: the transmission of electrical power by radio waves...
...being himself." Recently, a former student of Kiesler, Armand Bartos, asked him to become a partner while remaining strictly Kiesler. Their collaboration resulted first in Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken for the partners' full-scale project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a gigantic shrine, to be entered from underground, and built around an 80-foot column of c water, to house the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...departure in architecture in the garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, where a full-scale Japanese house was erected for exhibition five years ago. Never a man to waste time waiting for the decisions of practical men, Kiesler has plunged ahead into yet another project-a room for meditation, in which paintings open like windows and sculptures burst treelike from the floor...
Republic Steel Corp., the nation's third largest steelmaker, announced that it will spend $375 million on a major improvement program over the next four years. The first project will be a $45 million hot strip mill, with a capacity for 145,000 tons per month, to be added at Republic's Warren, Ohio plant. To dispel any doubts about overcapacity, Republic's Chairman Charles M. White told stockholders that he foresees the possibility of total steel industry output in 1960 exceeding 1955's record of 117,036,085 tons. Republic, which has boosted...