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With this hard-slung pebble for the Philistines, Director Amos Vogel of the New York Film Festival last week opened the fourth annual session of the most prestigious U.S. cinema congress. In a way, the pebble ricocheted. Too many of the far-out films shown at this year's festival tried hard to be difficult but just turned out dull. Too many others were bad jobs by good directors (Bunuel, Bresson, Godard, Torre Nilsson, Varda). Though the sponsors had doggedly previewed 400 films, their efforts failed to turn up enough hits to fill out the festival's fortnight...
Until 1951 Kahn had built little of importance. Then, while teaching at Yale, he designed that university's new art museum, which with its diagonal staircase slung in a concrete drum and waffle ceilings was hailed as a breakthrough in highly articulated construction. His medical-research laboratories building, finished in 1961 at the University of Pennsylvania, is the first major expression of his concept of "servant" and "served" spaces, achieved by isolating mechanical elements and air ducts in strong vertical towers, then hanging glass racks for laboratories between them...
...virtually unbearable. Not so with the government-owned Canadian National Railways, which last week announced that though it lost $60 million on 1965 passenger service, it has now ordered five of the turbotrains developed by the U.S.'s United Aircraft Corp. Even without roadbed improvements, these lightweight, low-slung, turbojet-powered whizbangs should be able to clip nearly an hour off the present five-hour Montreal-Toronto...
Died. Leonard Heinrich, 65, armor expert at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who in 1941, after a Pentagon call for something better than the antiquated "tin hat" helmet, designed the low-slung M-4 "steel pot," used in World War II, Korea and now in Viet Nam; of a heart attack; in Clarksville...
...administrative overhaul were vital, the real promise in the Las Vegas schools lies in their openness to new ideas. "We have some of the best innovations in education going on-and probably some of the worst," says Newcomer. In the city's Paradise Valley area, the new, low-slung $4,600,000 high school has open arches rather than doors in windowless rooms shaped in triangles, arcs and diamonds. Sliding partitions convert a classroom to a 250-student lecture hall...