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...mates well with that of place; where everything is the more ritualized for being more barbaric; where there is a splendid show of costume and music (the chief instrument is the banjo-like samisen), of processions and dancing. Here, too, the story is the universal one of the resourceful servant, who in this case plays a serious role: he gets his disguised young master past a hostile mountain barrier. Among many felicities, the acting and formal dancing of Shoroku II,* as the retainer, stand...
...government on behalf of "French colonialism and its black lackeys." They were an unlikely bunch of plotters: petty crooks caught black-marketing, government officials charged with smuggling trunkloads of the new currency over the border, and young intellectuals led by brilliant, French-educated Ibrahim Diallo, a former civil servant who had asked Touré's permission to form an opposition party...
...ruin your building later." The need to incorporate air conduits and the whole ganglion of mechanical equipment led Kahn to conceive of columns as "hollow stones" in which the clutter could be stored. From there it was only a step to dividing spaces into major, clear areas and subsidiary "servant spaces." By making this distinction, Kahn has revived functionalism once again as a springboard for esthetics...
...Medical Research Building at Pennsylvania, Kahn has put his principles to work by erecting great servant towers that suck in fresh air through nostrils at the base, throw off laboratory fumes from stacks that soar 25 ft. above the roof. In place of the usual hallway cubicles, Kahn gave the researchers clear, unpartitioned studio spaces. His next project: a new research institute in San Diego. Calif, for Polio Vaccine Discoverer Dr. Jonas Salk. which Kahn intends to make "a realm of spaces" where form will truly enhance the institute's function as an academy of biology...
Ever since the antibiotic era dawned, the miracle drugs made from molds have had no more ardent champion than a tough-looking, hard-working civil servant named Henry Welch. Starting with a 1943 crash project to develop standards for penicillin and methods of testing its purity and potency, he advanced to become undisputed czar of the industry. So bright did Welch's star shine that his bosses in the Food and Drug Administration boosted him from chief of the Antibiotics Division, at $14,450 a year, to the supergrade rank of director...