Word: turndowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shape & Sound. Hats in hand, a village delegation waited on Le Corbusier in Paris, got a brusque turndown from the master. But soon afterwards Le Corbusier showed up in Ronchamp. climbed Haut Lieu, and after peering around the site, began making quick architectural notes. For Le Corbusier, who is currently building a new capital city at Chandigarh in India's Punjab (TIME, June 8, 1953) and erecting a second edition of his much-discussed Marseille "radiant city" outside Nantes, the opportunity to build his first church was irresistible. What particularly caught his interest was the problem of designing...
Industrial commodity prices are one of the surest economic barometers. If they rise during a recession, they usually signal a recovery; if they drop as a result of reduced buying of raw materials, they signal a turndown in industrial activity...
...50th-anniversary banquet, sent him a round-trip air ticket and asked a club member, Greece's Prince Peter, who lives in a Tibetan border town, to help arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they, to carry out his duties as chief instructor of a government mountaineering school (which, though projected for months, has not yet been set up). Actually, Tenzing...
...that he could cover the Geneva Far Eastern Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was summarily turned down. The consulate informed him that he could only get a "traveler's permit" that would allow him to return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington, a Communist Party member since 1934, thus faces the choice of staying behind the Iron Curtain or going back to Britain and staying there. Though the London Worker screamed in Page...
...Imperious Demand." Young heard the news at his winter home in Palm Beach, Fla., and said: "I am really basically gratified. I'd rather have my own board of directors than work with the present one." He blamed the turndown on "Morgan interests" on the board...