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...Ton. Five years ago, the wife of the late architect Eero Saarinen bought one of Nagare's works. Soon foreign admirers-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Minoru Yamasaki-boosted him until he had more buyers in the U.S. than in Japan. When he finally caught on in his native land, he became the rage so rapidly that he had to hide from acclaim. When Yamasaki asked how to reach him, Nagare replied, "You can't. I move from farmhouse to farmhouse out in the country to run away from Japanese architects...
Nonetheless, he does it-by the ton. This summer alone, he polished off 14 new bronze and stone sculptures for his first one-man show in the U.S., opening at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery in November. With a team of masons, he completed 1,100 sq. yds. of sculptured stones weighing 600 tons, to serve as walls for the Japanese pavilion at next year's New York World's Fair. Next week, with his wife Mutsuko, he flies to the U.S. to assemble this weighty work. He calls it Stone Crazy...
...worked out a funny routine on karate, and he seems to have all the drive and flair he needs, but his taste is still a bit green. He tells about the mating of a steel Superman with a cast iron Superwoman, and he makes noises that suggest a 20-ton, front-end loader scooping up a Caterpillar tractor and heading off into the bush. "You know how they had to deliver the baby?" he asks. "With a blowtorch...
...apartment project for married graduate students. A new $2,200,000 medical building will house the Duke Center for the Study of Aging plus a diagnostic and treatment unit. Earlier this month Duke awarded a $1,200,000 contract to build a 188-ft., 350-ton oceanographic research ship-a seagoing laboratory-classroom that Duke will share in a cooperative venture with about 25 other universities and colleges...
...there was no evidence that he was supplanting his brother; as far as could be detected, the two were working in harmony. Directly under Nhu, two officers seemed to be in command: be spectacled, pockmarked Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, who wears a red beret, carries a swagger stick, and likes to be accompanied on military operations by his own photographer. Of South Viet...