Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shame, for Shame." Others were not so resigned. "For shame, for shame!" cried Congressman Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking Committee, who went on to predict "a marked slowdown in our economic growth" as a result of the hike. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council complained that the move would discourage borrowing by consumers and business alike. Coming at a time when many businessmen were beginning to wonder aloud whether the U.S.'s 45-month economic upswing could continue much beyond mid-1965, the discount-rate hike also raised fears among many businessmen of a recurrence of 1960, when...
...about everything these days, from insects to reconstructed New England whaling ports. For pure magnitude, nothing matches the problems of a museum for the aerospace age. When the private Air Force Museum Foundation approached Kevin Roche, 42, a partner in Eero Saarinen & Associates, to build a new museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, they wanted a structure in which the ten-engine B-36 jet and pusher-prop driven bomber, largest plane ever used operationally, would look right at home...
Visitors will enter the low, narrow end of the museum after walking down a quarter-mile ramp. Up to that point, the museum's massiveness is masked by giant earthen embankments. Then, beginning with the Wright Brothers' flyer, visitors progress historically past World War I Jennys to more than 80 types of aircraft famed in military aviation. The winged exhibits, designed by Herb Rosenthal & Associates, sit on various levels more like discoveries than displays. The sparrowlike Spads of the Lafayette Escadrille will be shaded under Roche's giant hangar along with...
Like flying itself, the ceiling soars and spreads steadily upward until it terminates in one giant span, 130 feet high and more than two football fields in length. Beyond is a gigantic, 12-acre forecourt filled with the newest rockets and aircraft opening directly onto Wright-Patterson's runways. Said one awed spectator, as he looked at the model last week: "It'll never get off the ground." In tribute to the architect, the museum looks as if it could...
...ominous in their ease as fellow New Englander Robert Frost's poetry. Last week his bobbing mobile The Ghost and his sprawling stabile Guillotine for Eight met like stalactite and stalagmite in the great rotunda of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum (see opposite page). Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture never had better tenants: a 361-piece retrospective that could equally well establish Calder as a wizard of the wind, a Wright Brothers' Rodin, or the greatest tinker of all time...