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Dean Sert reveals plans for the tenth House: a sixteen-story windowless inverted pyramid "gaily painted with colors reflecting the spirit of our times." Refuting charges of structural instability, Sert points out that "even the ancients knew the triangle was the most stable geometric form, and my pyramid will contain many triangles...
...Harvard Corporation announces that on the recommendation of Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the School of Design, it has commissioned architects Sert, Jackson, and Gourley to construct the tenth House in the form of a "windowless inverted pyramid." Sert applauds the Corporation on its "forward vision," adding, "I see no conflict of interest in my position...
...high-flying days of the scientific glamour stocks, few soared farther or faster than Itek Corp., a secretive Massachusetts maker of aerial photo gear. Its shares came out at $2 in 1957, shot up to $255 in 15 months, then split 5 for 1. The company attempted to pyramid itself with acquisitions, as Litton Industries has successfully done (TIME cover, Oct. 4). But it turned into what General Dynamics once was-a gangling collection of independent divisions sadly lacking central control. Itek lost $2,500,000 in 1961, and its stock began to drop, scraped...
...shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes strangely linked in style with the flat, frontal reliefs of the ancient Egyptians. Their bold, sophisticated expressionism is so compatible with modern art that they suggest the eternal life of forms...
Adenauer was "a lemon on a flagpole," Gandhi "a pyramid of homespun cloth topped with a dried prune," George Bernard Shaw "the devil's Santa Claus," John D. Rockefeller "the mummy of Rameses II." Churchill had a face "put together like early rose potatoes"; Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a fox grafted onto a lion" who "used his jaw as men use hands and elephants use trunks." If the descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most...