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...sinistra ("opening to the left") last week became a risky reality. In effect, the Christian Democratic Party shed some of its right-wing allies in parliament and went into partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, who had long been working closely with the Communists. Chief architect of the experiment is shrewd, scholarly Premier Amintore Fanfani, who believes that only through the Nenni alliance can he muster the votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage of the right, while conservatives fear that Fanfani will...
Rigid Security. The design for the Australian challenger came from the board of Alan Newbury Payne, 40, a maverick Sydney naval architect whose failures (an overrigged 12-ft. skiff, a 35-ft. cutter that wallowed badly when winds dipped below 25 knots) just about balance out his successes. To turn out the first 12-meter yacht ever built Down Under, Payne shrugged off recurring hepatitis, worked 60 hours a week for two years under such rigid security that outsiders still do not know the boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such...
...Manhattan newspapers to complain that the art world was misleading the people with "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence," demanded that the public rise up against the "high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo." Bolstering his messianic pronouncements with cash. Hartford got Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME cover. March 31, 1958) to design an ornate museum that was to be a counter to Manhattan's prestigious Museum of Modern Art (which, ironically, was also designed by Stone in his earlier, glass-box period ). Still abuilding in New York's Columbus Circle, the Gallery...
Buckminster Fuller, internationally renowned architect, inventor of the Dymaxion house, the geodesic dome, and the Dymaxion World Map, is living at Quincy House during his term as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Included in the group of undergaduates and graduates are an architect, an engineer, a doctoral candidate in Spanish education, and a girl who has done public health work in Costa Rica...