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...BURNT-OUT CASE, by Graham Greene. A world-renowned architect, who has arrived at the feeling that fame and the love of many women are not sufficient to warm his cooling soul, finds the touch of life again among the inhabitants of an African leprosarium...
...drawing boards hold greater changes. Beginning in early 1963, Chicago will build a 32-story, $67 million Civic Center. Using his familiar materials of glass and steel, Chicago Architect Mies van der Rohe has designed a 30-story. $50 million U.S. Courthouse and Federal Office Building. Starting from scratch, the University of Illinois will build a completely self-contained campus for its Chicago division that will eventually be used by 9,000 students...
...stayed in seclusion on his Rhineland estate until 1948, when he was tapped to run the agency that dispersed to German industry the credits generated by Marshall Plan aid. By insisting on first rebuilding Germany's heavy industry, Abs became, along with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a major architect of the German "economic miracle." In 1953, after Adenauer asked him to settle up Allied war claims against Germany, Abs succeeded in re-establishing West Germany's international financial credit at the relatively modest cost of $3.3 billion-a feat for which the German government gratefully awarded...
Masterpieces of Impassiveness. The artist ranked high in the kingdom, was sometimes even a member of the ruling class. One minister was called "the first of living artists," and there were princes only too happy to bear the title of mason (architect). In subject, the artists favored the deities of Hinduism and Buddhism, which flourished with the Khmers. Like almost all Oriental artists, they modeled their own work largely on what had been done before. The stance of the gods was apt to be ritualistic, and rarely did a Khmer statue show movement...
...city which suffered as she did, the woman seeks to understand and end her own haunting pain. In Nevers, in 1944, her German lover was shot, and she was publicly humiliated for consorting with an enemy soldier. But unlike the city, she has not recovered; unlike the architect whom she takes for a lover, she has neither plan nor hope for the future...