Word: saarinen
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...expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument to St. Louis as Gateway to the West. A seven-block pedestrian mall shaded by trees and flanked by lawns is abuilding. Ground has been broken for a 1,100-car parking garage, first step in construction of a downtown sports stadium, designed by Edward Stone, that will seat...
...door. In Athens, Walter Gropius used the same Pentelic marble that forms the Parthenon. Edward Durell Stone's grillwork adorns New Delhi like a Hindu temple. In Baghdad, José Luis Sert put up a tentlike structure fit for a caliph and cooled by channels of river water. Saarinen warmed his Oslo embassy with teak screens; Yamasaki lightened his Kobe consulate with airy Japanese panels. The openings of U.S. embassies have come to be as eagerly anticipated as big Broadway first nights. This month the State Department opens...
SUNDAY (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). A special program devoted entirely to the remodeled and about-to-reopen Museum of Modern Art, narrated by Aline Saarinen and featuring films of interviews with Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Alberto Giacometti and Stuart Davis in their homes or studios...
...Among the innumerable examples we could cite are Willkie, Stevenson, Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in U.S. politics; Eisenhower, Gruenther and Radford in the military sphere; Nasser, Nkrumah and Castro (whom we recognized as a Communist when he was still being widely hailed as a reforming liberal) among foreign leaders; Saarinen, De Kooning, Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Albert Finney and Shirley MacLaine in the arts...
Recently the European cranes have been migrating across the Atlantic in increasing numbers. More than 450 of them are at work-on buildings from Eero Saarinen's 38-story CBS skyscraper in Manhattan to Los Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers, Sweden's A. B. Lindenkranar and West Germany's Liebherr. The cranes range in price from $35,000 to $60,000, depending on lifting capacity, v. about $90,000 for the crawler crane...