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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the least means." Some of the best examples of the less-is-more approach are among the buildings Mies has designed for the Illinois Tech campus-simple, clean-lined constructions of glass ribbed with steel, which well serve their uncomplicated purpose as lighted areas for study. Similarly, his twin glass apartment skyscrapers on Chicago's lakefront make the most of the view, although some residents complain that the summer sun beating against so much glass sizzles the occupants...
Forethought & Combat. Officially, Douglas calls its new A4D the Skyhawk, but within the company, the plane is called the "Heinemann Hot-Rod," after Designer Edward H. Heinemann, 46, boss engineer at Douglas' El Segundo plant and builder of such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought...
...Haven has been piggybacking since 1937, now carries more than 50,000 trailers a year and grosses $2,000,000 on the service. But it is only recently that most of the giants have become interested. Last month the Great Northern started a piggyback service between the Twin Cities and Duluth. This month the Lackawanna, the Erie, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania are all launching similar services; the New York Central, the Lehigh Valley, the Union Pacific and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas are also about to join the parade. The railroads are betting millions on piggybacking. The Pennsylvania...
Poto's conducting experience includes three seasons with the Massachusetts State Symphony, a short period as head of the Air Force Symphonietta, and occasional Broadway performances of two Menotti opera twin-ball "The Telephone" and "The Medium on Broadway...
...more than your usual quota of gin this morning.' " That got Tommy's dander up. "He got his gun and threatened to kill me." In the witness chair, Manville was asked if it was true that he had proposed to Anita's twin sister, Juanita Patino, ex-wife of Bolivia's tin tycoon, just a few days after he married Anita. Tommy grinned sheepishly: "I don't know. I propose to anybody. I say it to a hatcheck girl. I say it to anybody-sort of as a form of introduction." At week...