Word: architected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early 1950s, the great French architect Le Corbusier designed the city of Chandigarh as a capital for India's sprawling Punjab state. Though shantytowns have long since sprung up alongside its lovely cubes and rectangles, Chandigarh (pop. 150,000) still stands out like an exquisite jewel in the blazing Punjab plain. From the first, however, it has been a jewel with a jinx -accursed, like the Hope diamond...
Like its prototype, the Council of Economic Advisers, Train's council could become a key architect of national policy. But that depends on President Nixon, who was lukewarm to the council when Congress proposed it last summer and has not endorsed a pending bill that would give it ample funds and a staff to carry out its impressive paper responsibilities. Even so, Nixon has lately seized environment as a major political issue, and Congress is unlikely to let him neglect it. As Senator Henry M. Jackson, principal author of the Environmental Policy Act, put it last week: "The council...
...part of artists, designers and psychologists," says Museum Director Paul Smith. "Artists are increasingly interested in working on a large, environmental scale, and the subject of contemplation seemed to give focus to many of their ideas." To coordinate the various projects, Gamal El-Zoghby, an Egyptian-born architect and instructor at Pratt Institute, designed a dark, mazelike passageway leading from one environment to the next...
...architect who designed it all is there, he'll tell you about how hard it was getting loans out of the local banks for a place that was supposed to be as "far-out" as the Western Front was planned to be. All of which goes to show how straight bankers can be at times...
...narcotics squad from keeping the heat on heroin dealers for long. Last summer, however, two things happened that should make drug enforcement a good deal more severe in the future. One was a visit to Paris by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the President's top domestic adviser and the architect of his heroin diplomacy, who dwelt on the subject with law-enforcement authorities and diplomatic officials, including Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. The other event had an impact imaginable only in a nation that has never had a serious drug problem. In August, two middle-class French youths, a 21-year...