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ARCHITECTURE HOme in a Barrel Vault New museums of late have tended to verge on the grandiose: the columned temple form of the Los Angeles County Museum, the mighty, circular Hirshhorn Museum planned for Washington, D.C., which rivals Hadrian's Tomb in scale. One museum in the process of being formed has decided on a different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn...
Kahn's solution is a pavilion roofed over with vaults. Visitors will first en ter a reception area, then pass under an arcade to the permanent collection, which will be composed initially of only 100 choice objects. The exterior walls of the museum will be solid for security reasons, but Kahn has made sure the interior will be light and airy. He picked the barrel-vault roof not for its classical associations but because of its structural strength. Such vaults can easily span 100 ft. between supports, allowing museum spaces to be open and flexible...
Huvelle had earlier set one of Harvard's four meet records by roaring through the 600 in 1:12.8. Harvard's other record-breakers were Roy Shaw in the mile (4:15.4), Doug Hardin in the two-mile (9:06.6), and Steve Schoonover in the pole vault (14' 1"), who took second place on comparative misses...
...highlight of yesterday's meet was John Derho's 13'6" pole vault, which obliterated a 34-year-old Harvard freshman record. The old mark...
Steve Schoonover cleared 15'6" in the pole vault but missed at 16' 1" as Bob Seagren went on to a 17-foot vault. The Harvard freshmen beat B.C., UMass, and Holy Cross in a mile relay and Exeter topped Andover for the fourth straight year...