Word: tags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force's Tactical Air Command, pioneered the high-mobility, nuclear-tipped, composite air-strike forces that got their showdown test when they were flown to support U.S. diplomacy in Lebanon and Quemoy (TIME, July 28, 1958 et seq.). Said he: "TAC never has had priority, like SAC. TAG had to make do with what it could get, and by God, we have...
...issues. Politically, the Saar was reunited with West Germany in 1957. and in the further flowering of European friendship it was inevitable that economic integration, scheduled for 1960, should be advanced to an earlier date. For weeks the talk in the Saar's beerhalls has been of Der Tag X-the day the customs barriers between the Saar and Germany would be pulled down and moved west to the Saar's French frontier. In anticipation of the day when the mark replaced the franc, Volkswagen dealers alone booked 7,000 advance orders. Also heavy were orders for German...
...Tag X neared, there was a sudden realization by the Saarlanders that they would lose many of the social benefits they had enjoyed under the French welfare state. Though it could be argued that lower German prices would help compensate them, some wage earners muttered that their much-prized German nationality may cost them as much as 20% of their pay after taxes. Such complaints led some West German newspapers, in commenting on the "Little Reunification" with the Saar, to ask soberly whether 17 million East Germans might one day be similarly reluctant to give up Communist welfare privileges...
...today, at 76, seven years after his retirement from Harvard, Gropius has launched into a new burst of creativity. The Architects Collaborative (TAG), a group of keen younger architects he gathered around him at his Cambridge, Mass. headquarters, has all the commissions it can handle. The old Lawgiver has displayed an unexpected flexibility in design. "I was possibly too Puritan," he reflects. "Too much storming against the old traditions. Now I have, with the same conceptions, I hope, a more subtle, more delicate expression...
Working with TAG, which operates on an equal-partner basis but assigns one architect as job captain to each project, Gropius is also kept busy with a new synagogue in Baltimore, the U.S. embassy in Athens, and is acting as a consultant on Manhattan's $100 million, octagon-shaped Grand Central City-a massive, 55-story structure adjacent to Grand Central Station, which will be the world's largest commercial office structure...