Word: chandigarh
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Waiting around Chandigarh airport, officials of India's Punjab State knew that a distinguished American would soon arrive-but they were far less certain about just who he was and what he was up to. They had heard the word Sargent, and at least one greeter bustled about asking whether it was a name or a military rank. They had also heard that he was coming to explain a new U.S. assistance program-which they automatically assumed had something to do with money or material goods. It was, therefore, a considerable surprise when R. Sargent Shriver Jr., brother...
...here was something crude. I thought this building should have elegance and be proud, too. But it is a fist instead of a hand." Architect Paul Rudolph of the Yale School of Art and Architecture disa grees. "As time goes on," says he, "everyone will understand the importance of Chandigarh; people will go there as they now go to the Piazza San Marco...
...Mill-owners Association, and finally the "endless museum" he had thought of 30 years before. Its plan, which was to be repeated in Tokyo, was a sort of square spiral or maze that could be expanded at will. Today he is still working on his biggest commission of all: Chandigarh, the capital of the Punjab. The Indian government hired Corbu for 4,000 rupees ($840; a month to build a whole new city to replace the old Lahore, which had been turned over to Pakistan...
...Sangh Party related the horrible details: a thousand cattle had been crowded together at Mattewara in flimsy bamboo sheds, sinking in mud and dung until they keeled over to provide grisly feasts for vultures and jackals. Mightily embarrassed, the state government sent its director of animal husbandry flying from Chandigarh to move 100 cows from the overcrowded rest home to another cow rest home nearby...