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...Slab Rendezvous. Fortunately, the man who designed the Chicago Circle campus prefers subways to taxicabs, is a champion of city living and a fancier of pop and op. He is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's gangling M.I.T. Grad Walter Netsch, 45, architect of the Air Force Academy's space-frame chapel. Rather than trying to carve out grassy plots, he has opted for the tough, rapidly moving esthetics of the city. His results are what he calls a "microenvironment," a miniature city for learning...
...other city, and the unavoidable traffic jams have elicited no examples of Christmas spirit from the participants. But somehow the city keeps her head. She looks with grudging admiration at Prudential Center, like the split level of a nouveau riche nephew, but stays home for the holidays. The stark slab may mean money and progress and all those other nasty things, but the important thing now is the old house, the Christmas wreaths looking dignified on Louisburg Square, the candles at the State House...
Morton May, called "Buster" by friends, oversees the chain from behind a modernistic slab desk on the eleventh floor of St. Louis' Famous-Barr store, the chain's flagship. Aware that the May Co. ten years ago showed signs of a slowdown under a 22-man board that included 11 members over 65, May continually recruits younger executives, schools them in the company's "fashion image." The curriculum is intended to teach them taste in merchandising in the same sense that May applies it to art collecting. May's aim is to make his stores leading...
...Plain. "Corbu" tackled city planning before anyone dreamed that cities should or could be planned. He designed elevated freeways to make downtowns more accessible when Los Angeles was still getting used to stop lights. He envisaged cities with skyscrapers set in green spaces. He developed the original slab building that inspired the 1952 United Nations Secretariat but gave it character by breaking façades with what he called brise-soleils or deeply set sun-shaded windows...
...Cadillac; so did the first auto tail fins, which spread through the industry before receding. Cadillac's turning lights, which provide side illumination during a turn, have been adopted by other G.M. divisions, will appear on the 1966 models of some competitors. The Lincoln Continental's handsome slab sides, introduced on the 1961 model, set a styling trend that still dominates Detroit; next fall Ford will bring out a Continental restyled for the first time in five years, will also reintroduce the two-door model dropped in 1960. As the expensive features have spread down into the market...