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Speaking in New Orleans in 1959, Architect Walter Gropius, then 76, sadly noted: "I have been 'nobody's baby' during just those years of middle life which normally bring a man to the apex of his career, when seed sown earlier should have come to fruition." True enough, the man who in 1919 founded the Bauhaus, and who later transformed Harvard's Graduate School of Design into one of the finest architectural schools in the U.S., had been asked to build comparatively little. But for once in his life, Walter Gropius turned...
Seeds of Disaster. The dragon seeds of last week's disaster were sown as far back as mid-1960. By then the Eisenhower Administration had overcome its original benefit-of-the-doubt attitude toward Castro, concluded that Cuba was being turned into a Communist base for subversion of Latin America, and started looking for ways to bring Castro down. Direct intervention was ruled out, barred by a natural distaste for it, by a fear of raising the old cries of Yankee imperialism, and by specific U.S. pledges under the treaty of the Organization of American States. Refugees from Castro...
Already the seeds of Communism had been sown in Laos, and they would doubtless sprout and grow during any drawn-out peace conference. But in the long perspective of the battle for Southeast Asia, the Laotian showdown could sow important seeds of its own. The President had faced up to the crisis with great coolness and style. He was newly familiar with the face of the enemy on the battle line, and newly familiar with the weapons at his command. In leading an attack on free Asia, Nikita Khrushchev also contributed to the seasoning of the West's cold...
...more learned of the two, according to Talmudic prescription, must be buried first. In the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia, the Salish Indians dispose of their dead by rolling an avalanche over them. In China, since the Communists took power, thousands of cemeteries have been plowed up and sown to crops. The bones, allegedly removed for reburial, were probably ground up for fertilizer...
...Apartment. Billy Wilder oats uproariously sown by Jack Lemmon as a latter-day Alger hero who earns the key to the executive washroom by lending four philandering executives the key to his apartment...