Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carpenter Center, Le Corbusier's first building in North America, derives its character from some of the most important of Le Corbusier's designs. The glass walls of the upper levels of the Center evidently appear originally in the Refuge City of the Salvation Army, built in Paris in 1920. The glass blocks which line one wall of the front elevation were used similarly in the Swiss Pavilion of Paris's University City in 1930. And the austere interior, though noticeable in virtually every Le Corbusier work, especially resembles that of the Villa Sarabhai which was erected...
Since the hated Wall went up in 1961, escapees have ingeniously gotten past it by tunneling, climbing, jumping, or by just knocking it down. Last week a young Austrian outdid them all, smuggling out his pretty fiancée and her mother through the simple expedient of keeping his head down. Heinz Meixner, 20, had moved to West Berlin two years ago to take a job as a lathe worker. As a foreigner, he was able to cross the line freely into East Berlin, where, at a students' dance last September, he fell in love with tiny, attractive Margarete...
...supply line, the 400-mile Ho Chi Minh trail to North Viet Nam through neutral Laos. The Reds had plainly evacuated the area in advance, but Vietnamese officials explained that they did not aim to kill Viet Cong guerrillas, only to isolate them. If successful, said one, the sweep "wall solve 50% of our military problems in the central highlands." Not so, retorted some of the U.S. officers who were taking part. "It would take a whole U.S. Army division to block that trail," said one. The clash of opinion extends to virtually every aspect of the frustrating, wearisome...
...almost every businessman's conversation. The usual optimists had a field day, the fence-sitters felt stirrings of commitment, and even the normally cautious allowed themselves a grunt or two of satisfaction. The sentiments of U.S. businessmen, from the corporate chief to the corner clothier, were captured by Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co.: "The current upswing in business seems to have something for everybody." Only six months ago many trendspotters had worried aloud about a mild recession in 1963, but the 20 professional economists reporting to the semiofficial Business Council last week saw the gross...
...even taken over until two weeks after Defiance's fiscal year had ended. A pair of Defiance stockholders is suing the management because they object to a deal in which the trio last year paid almost three times its book value to get control of one company. Wall Street is also skeptical of such tactics, and the stock of Defiance has dropped from a 1962 high of 13⅞ to 6⅝last week; B.S.F. is down to 6¾ from last year's peak of 15¼. But the trio carefully maintains a collectively optimistic face...