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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Credit for the decision goes to the State Department's Office of Foreign Buildings, headed by long-term Career Officer William P. Hughes. He concluded that neither Renaissance palaces (which too much recalled the past) nor glass boxes (which often clashed with traditional architecture, raised more hackles than they soothed) adequately represented the U.S. today. An advisory group of top architects was set up, and some 50 outstanding architects were called on for plans...
Sliding Doors. After West Germany became a sovereign state in 1955, the new government took over Gehlen's operation. For the past 13 years Gehlen has been established in the village of Pullach, some five miles from Munich, in a tree-shaded compound on the banks of the Isar River. Surrounded by a 10-ft. concrete wall, the compound looks like a housing development, with neat lawns and flower beds, lace-curtained villas and administration buildings. At each entrance are electrically operated sliding doors of steel mesh, with sentry boxes manned by armed and uniformed guards. Gehlen...
...doubled in size. In 1952, in collaboration with Rudolph Minkowski (TIME, June 27), he found the first pair of galaxies in collision. This proved that galaxies do in fact collide. Baade therefore examined close clus ters of galaxies for evidence that some of them may have collided in the past. Sure enough, such cluster galaxies contained few of the young stars of Population I, meaning that they had indeed collided. During the encounter, their stars inter-passed without individual collisions, but the dust and gas between them was combed out. Conclusion: galaxies that have collided contain no material to gather...
...proved at Palo Alto last week, past records are of little help when trackmen are fighting it out in the stretch. If American athletes rise to the occasion in Rome as they have always done, the U.S. should not fall off the gold standard...
...years past, there had been 14,500 different tones of wool for the weaver to choose from. Lurçat cut the cumbersome number down to 41 kinds of wool and 13 colors. Unlike most other designers, he does not bother with small preliminary sketches, but attacks the work directly. "Like a surgeon approaching a delicate brain operation," says he, "I have it all in mind." It takes a skilled weaver about a month to produce one square yard of tapestry, which may sell for as much as $400-or, in Lurçat's case...