Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinguish it from the old New House Office Building, and the old Old House Office Building, was formally opened for business. Lady Bird Johnson last week dedicated a somewhat idealized, larger-and leaner-than-life bronze statue of the late Mr. Sam in the main-stair hall. Said Representative Wright Patman, recalling his fellow Texan: "This edifice is made, like Rayburn's toughly achieved reputation, to last for the next thousand years...
...Ledonia Wright, a public health educator from the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School will advise the group. The Medical Committee for Human Rights, a group of physicians formed to ensure medical care for Negroes and civil rights workers in the South, will back the student organization...
...proposed by the Strategic Air Command to help attract highly intelligent officers for missile control crews, and to enrich their long hours of tedious, isolated duty. Several universities turned down the idea, but Ohio State, which since 1955 has operated the School of Systems and Logistics at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, agreed to open a branch campus at Ellsworth under a $500,000 contract with the Air Force Institute of Technology. Now rounding out its first year of full-scale operation, the school has been "phenomenally successful," says Major James B. Woodruff, liaison man between Hastings...
...preserve the secrecy the architects demanded.) They had agreed, with the six foreigners among them vigorously concurring, that the architect should be an American. Almost everyone listed Mies van der Rohe, the German-born septuagenarian who is generally looked upon (along with LeCorbusier and the late Frank Lloyd Wright) as one of the three greatest architects of the 20th century. Most of the selections also included Warnecke, because of his association with the President. There were several votes for a corporation, the giant firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. These were counted as votes for Gordon Bunshaft, the SOM partner...
Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, Professor of Law, and Mrs. Ledonia Wright, a specialist at the Harvard Medical School's Laboratory of Community Psychiatry, served on the five-member commission...