Word: scrivner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assignment, for it required the approval of Congress itself for the first major Government-supported marriage of religion and modern architecture in the U.S. When the final plan was in, Virginia's Senator A. Willis Robertson said it looked like "an assembly of wigwams," and Congressman Errett P. Scrivner demanded to know why Congress should appropriate more than $3,000,000 for so many spires when one spire per church had usually been sufficient in the past. The cost cutters won a modest victory: the 19 spires in the original design were reduced...