Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...50th anniversary celebration in 1959. Reading TIME'S cover story on Eero Saarinen (July 2, 1956), he noticed a box headed "The 20th Century Form Givers," was struck by the possibilities of making it the theme of a comprehensive and definitive exhibition of 20th century architecture. Prior went to TIME, asked it to tap its research and picture resources to assemble the show. Organized by Associate Editor Cranston Jones, who has won two American Institute of Architects' awards (Saarinen cover; Edward D. Stone cover, March 31, 1958), and designed by Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s Professor of Visual...
...tell you," he concluded sorrowfully, "how much regret I feel about this, and I am quite sure that the U.S. will share that feeling. Goodbye and thank you." With that, the President turned, got his hat, and went out to his waiting car. Slumping grim-faced in the back seat, he said: "It is like losing a brother...
...Christian Herter, was an architect and interior decorator who designed and lavishly adorned the Fifth Avenue mansions of such gilded-age moguls as J.P. Morgan and William H. Vanderbilt. In his early 40s, having piled up a million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became an eminent New York surgeon-biologist, suggested to John D. Rockefeller the idea of creating the Rockefeller Institute...
Though the trip is labeled "unofficial," Nixon-highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the U.S.S.R. since Franklin Roosevelt went to Yalta in 1945-will probably be accorded a typical Khrushchev welcome at the Kremlin, particularly if a summit conference is imminent. But chances are that Nixon would not attend the summit conference, since the President is reluctant to have both himself and the Vice President out of the country at the same time...
...game was close until the last inning, when Pennsylvania put over the two deciding runs, and had the Crimson been able to hit, it could easily have taken the lead and won. The Quakers even went to the trouble of giving the varsity four baserunners as a result of four errors, but the Crimson batters were unable to bring them home...