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...Politics. The man most responsible for WHO's progress on 825 projects in 1961, "Marco" Candau, 51, is the first person in history to earn the title of "doctor to the world." Born across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, graduated from its school of medicine in 1933, Dr. Candau went to work in his home state's health department. After a year at Johns Hopkins, where he polished his correct English, Dr. Candau won acclaim in a Rockefeller health project in Brazil. From that, it was but a step to WHO in 1950, running its office...
Crisscrossing the city, Menon sound trucks blared out the theme that Menon was a modern Marco Polo, spanning oceans and continents to defend India's interests all over the globe. But Menon himself scarcely concealed his contempt for constituents. At one gathering in a slum area, he stretched out on the platform behind the party functionary who was eulogizing his accomplishments and fell fast asleep. Awakened by applause, he scrambled to his feet and spoke a few words in English, which sailed right over his Hindi-speaking audience...
Later in the week he and Ambassador Marco Nikezic will tour Boston, and on Saturday will attend the Harvard-Colgate football game...
...Architect Mies van der Rohe. Yet he came to regard the strict functionalism of his elders in the International Style more as a "purgative" than a final answer. For the mammoth General Motors Technical Center in Detroit, Saarinen thought not only of Mies but of Versailles, Tivoli and San Marco...
...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...