Word: uprightness
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...S.O.M. soon had an ingenious solution. Graham's engineer-partner, Fazlur Khan, illustrates the concept by grasping a bundle of nine upright cigarettes. Each represents, in effect, a separate, square building, 75 ft. by 75 ft.; joined together, the nine square "tubes" form the basic structure of the Sears Tower. By combining all nine tubes -each of which is inherently a strong, rigid shape-the building needs less structural steel than a conventional tower. The saving: about $10 million in steel costs...
...viewpoint. Conservative Sage Barry Goldwater produced one of the first surprises when he turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might not be so bad: "Many Democrats [might support] him out of resignation or relief...
...abolish the flesh trade altogether on the grounds that "our universities should stand on their own merits." Rival coaches, victimized by Wooden basketball teams that have won 75 consecutive games and seven straight national championships, understandably scoff at the proposal. Wooden, they say, can afford to take such an upright stand because U.C.L.A. has long attracted the best high school players on prestige alone. Last week, in fact, Richard Washington of Portland, Ore., considered by many the nation's No. 1 schoolboy prospect, announced that he was enrolling at U.C.L.A. Wooden, neglecting to mention that he had already signed...
Because he stutters badly, Hoagland does most of the listening. He greatly admires self-reliance and know-how: the man who minces lead pipe to make his own buckshot and carries bottle caps filled with wax to kindle his fire on wet nights, the man who keeps his canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers...
...start of the meeting never deters Dunlop from continuing his performance. While Bok plays the somber straight man, next to him Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they detected him stick...