Word: werners
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France's Le Corbusier will design a massive sports stadium; Finland's Alvar Aalto is at work designing a civic center, with library and art gallery; Germany's Werner March is drafting plans for a $3,500,000 museum; Walter Gropius' Cambridge (Mass.) Architects Collaborative hopes to have a plan for a new university, with mosque, ready by next September; Italy's Designer-Architect Gio Ponti has already designed a ten-story headquarters for the Iraq Development Board and an eight-story office building for GORA (Government Oil Refineries Administration...
Last week two impressive efforts toward the definitive statement of harmony were announced. In West Berlin, before a meeting of scientists that honored the late Max Planck's 100th birth date, German Physicist Werner Heisenberg, 56, reported that he is prepared to make "a suggestion for the basic equation of matter." In Manhattan, before a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, German-born Dr. John Grebe, 58, director of Dow Chemical Co.'s nuclear, research, proposed "a periodic table for fundamental particles" that might help "explain the material of the universe...
...four-lane stretch of U.S. 231, is lined with housing developments, more than a dozen modern motels, a $3,000,000 shopping plaza (with a delicatessen featuring Wiener schnitzel), and two new schools. A pride of the community is the new 55-piece Huntsville Civic Orchestra-with Werner Kuers, one of Von Braun's old German rocket hands, as concertmaster...
...master the new control, Werner started to get ready for the season as long ago as last summer, when he spent two months on the slopes of the Andes. This winter he put the finishing touches on a new ski technique. "I had been putting too much weight on my inside [uphill] ski, and I tried to ski more on my outside [downhill] ski," he says. "I'm not so wild now. I want to go as fast as I can and still stand...
This week the crew-cut Coloradan and most other great skiers are training together on the slopes of Bad Gastein for the world championships. Tanned and trim, they are a friendly lot, bound together by the pleasures and perils of their craft. But when the competition starts, Bud Werner is ready to battle his buddies, is even willing to flout the maxim-especially fitted to skiing-that pride goeth before a fall. "If I say so-and I see no reason why I shouldn't-I expect to get some of the medals," he says. "In fact, I shall...