Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there art in a broomstick? Yes, says Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, if it is designed both for usefulness and good looks. For the past three years, the museum has staged a kind of super shower, receiving thousands of new items of home furnishings through Chicago's Merchandise Mart, and selected a few hundred for good-design awards (signified by an orange and black label). Last week the museum exhibited the best of this year's crop...
...beginning to realize that the Russian thermonuclear bomb demands a whole new range of political and military thinking. The dominant fact percolating through policy discussion in Washington is that the U.S.S.R. will have enough super bombs to menace the U.S. by 1956 or sooner (TIME, Sept. 21). And the thermonuclear blast is so devastating (potentially thousands of times the power of the most up-to-date atomic bomb) that victory after 1956 may go not to the nation with the biggest stockpile of bombs but to the nation that drops them first...
France's Architect Le Corbusier, the prophet of vertical living who thinks that even Manhattan skyscrapers are too small, came in for some criticism last week in London's Economist. His familiar prescription for overflow populations from ever-growing cities is the super apartment house, a kind of human hive (he has just finished a 20-floor prototype at Marseille, placing 1,500 people on a 450-by-66-ft. plot). The alternative, says the Economist, is the sprawling suburb, "the village green multiplied by unplanned expansion" that all too easily turns into an "amorphous and soulless mess...
...wheels, cutaway fenders exposing the whole wheel). The industry rumor is that Buick is taking the boldest step of all by adding to its three existing lines a sports model, with 170-h.p. engine and a light metal frame and body, to be priced somewhere between the Special and Super models. Chevrolet and Pontiac have kept their new looks top secret, but production of the Chevrolet's fiber-glass plastic sports car, the Corvette (160 h.p., 102-in. wheel base, 2,900 Ibs.), will be boosted to thousands...
...still, the Government will soon lose $8 billion a year in present revenues, since it is committed to letting some emergency taxes die next year-the excess profits tax, the 10% emergency boost in personal income taxes, the temporary 5% boost in corporate rates. And with Russia's super bomb raising some profound questions of U.S. defense strategy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), defense spending may have to be raised...