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Last week in Palo Alto, amid the pomp of an academic convocation, President J. E. Wallace Sterling dedicated Stanford's handsome new $21 million medical center (complete with 434-bed hospital), designed by Manhattan Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, March 31, 1958). For the university's med students, who can now fulfill their degree requirements without commuting to another campus, the center is an unqualified blessing. But in San Francisco medical circles, the center is an object of much discussion and no little concern...
...Suntan Vote. Never before had a British party won three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing...
...Scattered through Woodward's swelling roster are such noted local residents as Architect Hugh Stubbins, Bacteriologist Robert Gohd. Chemist Charles Coryell and Geologist Louis DeGoes...
This is the credo of Minoru Yamasaki, who at 46 is turning out some of the gayest and most graceful buildings in the U.S. In recognition of Yamasaki's growing stature among U.S. architects, the Detroit Institute of Arts will open next week a full-scale show of his past works and future projects, timed to coincide with the dedication of Yamasaki's newest building -the Detroit headquarters of Reynolds Metals Co. Though its grille of gold anodized aluminum owes an unabashed debt to Architect Ed Stone, the Reynolds building, on a 4½-acre plot...
Jaundiced Eye. It took Detroit and the U.S. a long time to recognize Yamasaki, as it took Yamasaki a long time to find himself. Born in Seattle, he shared the indignities common to Japanese Americans. But he had a burning desire, inspired by an architect uncle, to become an architect. After getting his degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress...