Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last winter Sweden's beautiful, bouncy Princess Birgitta went to West Germany to improve her German and indulge her zest for sports. While in Munich, Birgitta, 23, who teaches gymnastics, met a young man ideally equipped to help her with both projects. A skilled gymnast himself, Germany's...
While Cinemactor Peter Lawford pushed ahead with a talent-packed extravaganza aimed at paying off the $2,000,000 deficit of the recent Democratic campaign (TIME, Dec. 19), Peter's mother melodramatically moved to meet her own bills. In Hollywood, Lady Lawford, seventyish, a British subject ("I would have...
Across the land this Christmas season, churches old and new, grand or unpretentious, prepare for the gladdest occasion of the Christian calendar. The choirs, practicing the favorite carols, come as close as they will be to perfection, creches are installed, candles lit. The old is comfortable and familiar. But across...
During the year 1960, a round $1 billion has been poured into new churches, accounting for 13.2% of all public buildings put up in the U.S. The church boom has attracted some of the best U.S. architects, and led them to produce buildings that are often adventuresome in structure and...
Temples on Human Scale. The new churches first of all bear witness that congregations today are determined to reassert their place in a highly secular century. "This is not a great cathedral-building age, like the Middle Ages." Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe says, "Today...