Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's Graduate School of Design, the search for rigor is partly expressed by two phrases: "from follows function" and "the human scale." In this issue of Connection Benjamin Thompson, chairman of the Architecture Department, suggests a purposeful departure from "artistic" designing towards an "anonymous architecture," based principally on the uses and setting of a building. He uses the work of his own firm, The Architects' Collaborative, to illustrate the proposal. Thompson defines TAC's team style (as seen in the Geological Labs on Oxford St.) as "design for other humans than ourselves"--the opposite of "egotism and upstage-itis...
...More Roaring Metal. The Reading plant, says Roy Thompson, is a "cross between a laboratory and a hospital. No more of that hot, roaring metal. The typesetters wear ordinary clothes to work and don't spatter themselves with oil." The copy desk is just a few yards from twelve keyboard machines on which former linotypists type copy into the same sort of computer that some New York newspapers have vainly tried to install. The computer hyphenates and justifies lines to form even newspaper columns, thus eliminating one of the printers' biggest jobs...
...Lieut. David Meredith, 26: the National Service Rifle (.30 cal.) championship of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches, scoring 796 points (out of a possible 800) and hitting the center bull's-eye 79 times in 160 shots. Another winner at the month-long matches: WAC Lieut. Margaret Thompson, who outshot 2,000 male competitors with a .30-cal. rifle to win the Navy Cup, firing a perfect score...
...audience that had gathered to hear these words was appropriate: Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg; two past presidents of the American Bar Association, Charles Rhyne and Robert Storey; the current Bar Association president, Lewis Powell, and the president-elect, Edward Kuhn; William S. Thompson, secretary-general of the World Peace Through Law Center; and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach...
Bangkok now has 156 silk shops, which export their goods to 60 countries, ring up a yearly volume of $4,000,000-a considerable amount for Thailand. Silk has been a golden enterprise ever since a onetime U.S. intelligence officer, Jim Thompson, revived the dying art of weaving in 1948 and made himself a bundle of bahts by selling bright bolts of cloth to tourists (TIME, April 21, 1958). Thompson is still the largest producer, but he has attracted plenty of competition from entrepreneurs who sell finished dresses as well as the cloth. Gaining fast are two firms that combine...