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Preparations really began in 1957, when then-Mayor Nathan Phillips launched an international design contest for the new city hall, which drew 520 entries from 42 countries. Five distinguished judges, including the late Eero Saarinen, finally gave the nod to Helsinki's Viljo Revell, and for good reason. Architecture was then struggling free from the glass and steel web of anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures...
Last week, at 66, Dr. Berry retired from the deanship. Said James Conant: "This appointment was the best job I ever did while president of Harvard." To succeed Dr. Berry, President Nathan M. Pusey has recruited Dr. Robert Higgins Ebert, 50, from the determinedly progressive medical faculty of Western Reserve. Son of a physician and brother of another, Minneapolis-born Dean Ebert (A.B., Chicago, '36; Rhodes scholar and D. Phil., Oxford, '39; M.D., Chicago, '42) now has one of the most difficult assignments a medical man can have: being...
...cluttered with the kind of people who do not mind how much money they spend as long as it does not show. Swimming is possible, but the water is so bone-chilling that only the hardy or the invulnerable young do much of it except in swimming pools. Today, Nathan Pusey, Walter Lippmann, Thomas Gates, and Nelson Rockefeller go there to relax and enjoy some of the world's best sailing, with the major derivation of the visitors remaining Boston and Philadelphia ?the place is sometimes popularly known as Philadelphia on the rocks...
Married. Rosemary Pusey, 23, daughter of Harvard's president Nathan M. Pusey; and David Stephen Hopkins, 21, Stanford University graduate student; in Cambridge, Mass...
...June--Nathan Marsh Pusey is appointed President by the Corporation. McCarthy attacks the new President, calling him a "rabid, anti-anti-Communist...