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Monnet listened to the objections with the tactful, judicial air of an architect aware that he can still learn something from other builders. The Dutch, the principal objectors, wanted the governments to have more of a check on the new body. Said they: "If you try to push governments into the corner and ignore them, you will find that they turn into a group of brooding animals." But even the Dutch wanted to avoid a one-power veto. A likely solution: only a two-thirds vote of the member nations could override Monnet's supranational authority...
Died. Eliel Saarinen, 76, Finnish-born architect, longtime President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. A painter in his youth, Saarinen won his first success with the elegantly simple Finnish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1900, later designed the Helsinki railroad station and Finland's National Museum. An old friend of Frank Lloyd Wright and functionalism, Saarinen emigrated to the U.S. in 1923, designed (with his son) the Tanglewood Mass, music center and the Des Moines Fine Arts Center, worked unceasingly on his far-seeing city planning schemes...
...Levitts' own building has been hugely profitable. As president and co-owner (50%) of the $10.5 million Levitt & Sons, Inc., Bill pays himself $125,000 a year; Architect Alfred, who owns the other 50%, draws the same. Father Abe, who now spends his time landscaping, is paid $60,000 for being what some Levittowners call "vice president in charge of grass seed." From outside interests (e.g., the California timber stands and two country clubs which are operated in connection with the Levitts' more expensive Strathmore developments) the brothers get another $150,000 a year apiece. And when they...
...Capital, Lahore, went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
Unfettered. To plan the new city, Indian officials picked Albert Mayer, 52, a Manhattan architect. During World War II, when he was stationed in India as a lieutenant colonel of Army engineers, Mayer went out of his way to get to know some of the problems of India, and its people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, now Prime Minister. When the Punjab hired Mayer, Nehru said: "Let this be a new town symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered with the traditions of the past." Designer Mayer was delighted with the prospect. Said he: "To a planner it is tremendously exciting...