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...hundred ripoffs: bland, scaleless crates with their $50 per sq. ft. marble foyers and 100 Sheetrock offices, their eggbox planning, insipid detail and graceless proportions. The International Style expended itself in these shallows, not in its masterpieces. But what is the alternative? Not the culture of Vegas casinos and duck-shaped roadhouses beloved of Pop architectural theorists like Reyner Banham and Robert Venturi; trash may be language, but it remains trash. The desire for an architecture that is grand, exemplary, responsive and practical still exists. And general expectations of such an architecture have to a large extent converged on Kahn...
...Office of Management and Budget, fighting to hold down federal spending, has proposed an 18-month moratorium on all Government commitments to finance new public-housing projects. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney is righting for some public-housing money, but his clout is reduced by his lame-duck status...
FRESHMAN UNION, "Herman J. Mankiewic, Mankiewicz Folms" Duck Soup, Jan. 12, 13, 10:30 p.m., Citizen Kane...
...three freshmen. Brian D. Young, said yesterday that the society will show two movies done by the same director in order to have a "certain continuity in its showings." The first double-feature, set for sometime during the second week in January, will feature Mankiewicz's "Citizen Kane" and "Duck Soup," he said...
...Sitting Duck...