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Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is Dr. Edward Teller, noted nuclear physicist and a chief architect of the H-bomb...
...feasting on art, the viewer usually plunges from room to room, and his retinas, unrefreshed between rich courses, cry for cool relief. Such, at least, seems to be the art-gastronomy theory of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; as the architect of a new museum in the south of France, he solves this and a number of other gallerygoers' problems...
...Peru last week had as much reason for rejoicing as Argen tina. After free elections, the military junta that had been running the country for more than a year stepped peacefully aside for the inauguration of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, 50, a vigorous and ambitious architect. Peru's economy, left in good shape by the sound policies of ex-Premier Pedro Beltrán, and well tended by the interim military government, was in blooming health. The sol is one of the solidest currencies in Latin America. Foreign reserves stand at a fat $106 million, old industries...
...boats for weekend sailing. In 1957 he drew up a list of 35 specifications a weekend boat ought to have, but he could not sell Fairey on the idea. So O'Day, with a handful of U.S. sailing friends, decided to produce the boat himself. Famed British Naval Architect Uffa Fox got the design contract. The boat that came off Fox's drawing board, christened the Day Sailer, was enough to make an old yacht-club commodore choke...
...added five more models to his bathtub navy, including the Rhodes 19 (a 19-footer designed by Architect Philip Rhodes), which, at $3,000, may eventually outsell the Day Sailer. His company sold 250 boats and took in $300,000 in 1958. This year, he expects to sell 1,800 boats. The only trouble with all this growth is that apart from a modest $12,000 profit the first year, O'Day Corp. has lost money every year since, largely because O'Day knew a lot about sailing selling but less about business...