Word: ultramodernism
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...three years skeptical Frenchmen have watched Le Corbusier's ultramodern "Radiant City" taking form in the suburbs of Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948; June 12, 1950). They found plenty of fault with the 300-family apartment house. The quarters were cramped, the master bedrooms offered hardly any privacy from the living rooms, and windowless kitchens would make it hard for the pungent odors of French cooking to escape, or for French housewives to throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille...
...aspects of Bataan, some of Anzio, some of Dunkirk, some of Valley Forge, some of the "Retreat of the 10,000" (401-400 B.C.) as described in Xenophon's Anabasis. The retreat of the 20,000 in Korea would not have been possible without General Tunner's ultramodern airlift, which supplied them with all the ammunition and food they could use, and even with bridging equipment (see below...
...dignified publicity stunt, the drug house has shown surgical operations in color for the benefit of some 50,000 doctors in medical gatherings all over the country. Since black & white television gives little idea of a surgical operation, the CBS system has given many doctors their first glimpse of ultramodern techniques. Many of the grateful doctors are loud rooters for CBS color...
...industry is still expanding. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (which owns Bakelite, the biggest plastics maker) is stepping up production 50%. Dow Chemical Co. is spending $17 million on new plants. Du Pont has completed a new multimillion-dollar ultramodern plastics factory near Parkersburg, W. Va. Production, which was only 150 million pounds in 1936, this year will hit an estimated 1.6 billion pounds...
Last week the papers prepared to break with their past. In mid-September, they will move to an ultramodern new building (ten blocks below the Mason-Dixon line). In the same week Editor Wallace will retire. In a sense, both departures are overdue. The new plant, budgeted to cost $3,000,000, has already eaten up $7,000,000 and will open 18 months late. And at 73, "Uncle Tom" Wallace is eight years past the paper's retirement...