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...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (left) is Le Corbusier's only building on this continent and Harvard's most exciting one. You can walk under and through the VAC three different ways without even getting inside. The only entrance is hidden from the street, under an overhang, and near the building's geometric center. Its combination of curved and planar surface screate a kind of dynamic visual movement few buildings have. Its axis is on a diagonal from Quincy St.; but the exterior has no "sides...
...orders placed with factories rose modestly in March, the Commerce Department reported last week. And manufacturers' inventories showed their smallest gain ($311 million) in almost two years, as rising retail sales eased economists' worry over the "inventory overhang." Says President Robert Williams of Youngstown Sheet & Tube: "Customer stocks of steel have come down pretty well. We have seen the bottom of our operating curve." Says Alcoa President John Harper: "We feel the economy will gather strength. We expect the aluminum industry to grow faster than the economy...
...overall, 45 ft. at the waterline, compared with 68 ft. and 46 ft. for Columbia and Constellation. An obvious advantage is weight; Stephens figures that he saved more than 60 Ibs. on the shorter bow alone. What's more, says Stephens, without the usual heavy fore and aft overhang, the short-ended Intrepid will be less prone to lose speed by hobbyhorsing in rough seas around the Cup course off Newport, R.I. To keep the boat's center of gravity low and thus increase her stability in a breeze, Stephens prescribed lightweight titanium for the top third...
...industrial average fell for four days in a row, struggled up just a bit in the final session, and closed at 864-down 16½ points for the week.* Everybody on Wall Street was waiting for news from Washington and looking for a firmer fix on three uncertainties that overhang the market: Viet Nam, steel labor, and the immediate future course of the U.S. economy...
Stripped to the Bone. The Weatherly that Mosbacher piloted last week was not the same sluggish boat that wound up ahead of only hapless Easterner in 1958. Her stern overhang had been lopped off; she had a new, flatter keel that was designed to point her mast higher (to take advantage of steadier breezes that blow well above the water), make her faster beating to windward. Racing boats are like racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened...