Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he saw the Broadway hit. Sunrise at Campobello, New Brunswick's able Tory Premier Hugh John Flemming has thought hard about the New Brunswick island where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent so many summers. Last week Flemming told of a project that he recently proposed to his good neighbor next door, Maine's Democratic Governor Clinton A. Clauson: Why not restore F.D.R.'s old summer haunt, now in slight disrepair, and open it to the public as an international shrine, jointly maintained by Maine and New Brunswick? Clausen's response was favorable...
Tigris in the Gardens. Prime case in point is Gropius' new plan for Iraq's University of Baghdad. The $70 million project seemed a lost cause when General Abdul Karim Kassem swept to power last summer. Never one to give up easily, Gropius last January flew to Baghdad himself with plans and models, found, to his relief, that Premier Kassem was enthusiastic.* Kassem's only cavil: the university was not big enough. Gropius promptly agreed to increase the size by one-third (from 8,000 to 12,000 students...
Working with TAG, which operates on an equal-partner basis but assigns one architect as job captain to each project, Gropius is also kept busy with a new synagogue in Baltimore, the U.S. embassy in Athens, and is acting as a consultant on Manhattan's $100 million, octagon-shaped Grand Central City-a massive, 55-story structure adjacent to Grand Central Station, which will be the world's largest commercial office structure...
...days later, the House Space Committee released testimony on the even wider possibilities suggested by Project Argus-the series of bombs exploded late last summer 300 miles above the South Atlantic that sent a shell of charged particles racing round the world. A nuclear bomb exploded over the Indian Ocean, Pentagon officials told the committee, could theoretically disrupt radio communications in Moscow, some 7,000 miles away. Similarly, a blast set off high over the tip of South America could interfere with communications in the Washington area. But to make such interference effective, bombs much larger than Project Argus...
Surrounded by a moat, the project will offer plenty of free parking space, and will also, being located near the Charles River, be accessible by boat from down-town Boston...