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...chair provides an area where he can follow through with an architectural concept and test it directly in terms of human scale and function." But the man whose chairs stand in over 1,000,000 homes unabashedly admires the old along with the new, perches himself on a stub-legged Indian chair in the house he designed for himself in Venice, Calif. His dining room (background] is furnished with his prize-winning 1944 chair. And, his black leather chair near by frankly owes a great deal to the Victorian functionalist, William Morris. The leather cushions have built-in wrinkles, Eames...
...navigation of space: the going out and the coming back. The Air Force's Pioneer demonstrated that the day is near at hand when a missile will soar out into free space. Last week North American Aviation, Inc. rolled out its X-15 - a stub-winged, hard-shelled rocket.plane designed to study the other end of the problem: how to get a man back safely from outer space...
...political pathway for Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. Before that day ended in Jamestown, he had traveled 200 miles, made nine campaign stops. At each he eased into a different device for winning friends and influencing voters. In Geneseo Rockefeller happily scribbled autographs for housewives, on handbags and even a check stub ("I never sign my autograph on a check"). In Alfred "Rocky" popped a blue Alfred University beanie on his head while 2,000 students cheered. In Wellsville he solemnly accepted 50? campaign contributions from two shy Brownie scouts. In Olean he let ward bosses wait while he strode into...
...Tommy Boston Jr. of Cartersville, Ga., was taken to St. Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta, where Surgeon William A. Hopkins found that he had a short stub of gullet extending one-third the normal length down from his throat, then nothing. Dr. Hopkins led this stump out through a hole in the neck, so Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy...
Last week Stub Cole found that the well-worn path through Congress could also be a path into the unknown. After some behind-scenes grumbling by Russia, directors of the fledgling IAEA, meeting in Vienna, elected Cole their first director-general with a probable salary of $20,000 a year and a $10,000 expense account...