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...wing of California's La Jolla Museum of Art, grade-school kids excitedly picked through piles of Barbie-doll heads, eyeballs, limbs and torsos for parts to build an abstract model of a city. Elsewhere, they lugged huge $2,100 movie cameras about to film the summertime activity at the museum...
Geisel, an irrepressible child who has no children, is far from obsolete. Working out of a former observation tower atop Mount Soledad, highest point in La Jolla, he carefully turns his easel away from the distraction of the panoramic Pacific view, continues to create intriguing cartoon characters, pen funny-but moralistic-stories, mainly in verse. Scarcely a grade school or children's library in the U.S. is without his books, which are used mainly to help beginning readers get a kick out of reading. Geisel once based his book texts-as most publishers of reading primers still...
...with the medicares of the aged. Every anatomical twitch or psychedelic escapade of the teen-agers scares up worry wart headlines. Ironically, even the revolt of the teen-aged is subsidized by middle-agers. Those tiny secessionist principalities of the disdainful young that span the U.S. from the La Jolla, Calif., surfing set to the hobohemians of Greenwich Village could scarcely be sustained without the checkbooks of indulgent fathers...
Jalousies & A Happy Dungeon. Most recently built of Kahn's inventory (see opposite page) is his Salk Institute for Biological Studies, overlooking the Pacific palisades in La Jolla, Calif. Selected by Dr. Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, Kahn designed the presently half-occupied institute as two yoked rectangular blocks facing seaward. Each block is composed of flexible laboratory spaces, spanned by floor-tall Vierendeel trusses, which, like punched-out beams, permit the tons of laboratory plumbing to pass through. Separated from the labs by stairways and passageways that serve as open terraces for outdoor seminars...
...pacesetter in scholarly gamesmanship is the San Diego public school system, where Project SIMILE of La Jolla's Western Behavioral Sciences Institute has enticed 2,000 junior and senior high school students to pit wits against one another in four types of games. In one, called "Napoli," they play the roles of legislators who are equipped with opinion polls showing how their constituents feel about such issues as medicare, tax reduction and subsidies for the poor. As bills on these issues move through the legislature, each player has to make choices between his principles and what he thinks...