Word: brainchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such coin counting has spawned sincere flattery: imitation Disneylands are shooting up across the country. The best are the brainchildren of drawling, blunt-talking Texan C. V. Wood, 38, a onetime industrial engineer whose survey on Disneyland's prospects so impressed the master that he was invited in to build the park. At present, Wood is supervising construction of five others (including Denver's Magic Mountain, Great Southwest Park near Dallas, Montana Magica in Caracas), has half a dozen more in the planning stage. This week, his latest is open: $4,000,000 Pleasure Island, 14 miles north...
Voters in Madison. Wis. agreed-15,169 to 13,885-to authorize the city to hire cranky old (85) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a municipal auditorium and civic center. Chortled Wright, whose unorthodox and costly brainchildren of the past had set the city's officials to view him with alarm: "The people of Madison have demonstrated that politics...
...sets for No Exit and The Magic Flute, began experimenting with abstract sculpture constructed "to relax inside." More recently he completed a project for a "continuous house" (egg-shaped), featuring a prismatic mechanism which would flood the interior with different colors for each hour of the day. His latest brainchildren, which went on exhibition at Manhattan's Sidney Janis gallery last week, he calls "galaxies...