Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruling not only rattled bankers but riled lawmakers, who saw their authority challenged. Congress moved to reframe the law, but unfortunately the task fell to the House banking committee, which is run as a fief by Chairman Wright Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just...
LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee read from Black Boy, Richard Wright's autobiographical account of the plight of the slum Negro...
...German Pavilion (since destroyed) in Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition, a jewel-case structure employing the open planning first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright that combined the richness of bronze, chrome, steel and glass with free-standing walls...
...raised campus not only accentuates the view of a great city: it also impressively dramatizes the immense stretch of the Midwestern prairies by capitalizing on Frank Lloyd Wright's perception that the best architectural way to capture their spirit would be in strong horizontals. The space beneath the granite and concrete court and under the elevated walkways is not wasted. In places, the platform level serves as the roof covering for campus classrooms; in others, it shelters ground-level paths from rain, and adjacent outdoor parks, cobblestoned and furnished with old-fashioned fold-up lawn chairs, from wind. There...
...burrowing under them to provide access roads to the central terminal area, and installing complex ground-control systems. Even so, the Navy report has stirred the interest of aviation officials. It may well trigger more imaginative research into an area of aeronautics that has remained relatively unchanged since the Wright brothers used the dunes at Kitty Hawk as one of the world's first airfields...