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Presumably this was meant to imply that if the building had been more modern the League might never have foundered. Four arch-conservative architects had won the Geneva competition, pooled their resources to design the cumbersomely classic stone pile which was finally finished in 1938-when there was no longer much use for it. But the "rightful winners," according to the Museum, were Frenchmen Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, who had proposed a terraced glass-and-concrete palace in the strictest "functional" tradition. This time, urged the Museum, the UNO planners should "learn from Geneva and select an international jury...
...candidate was given a pile of construction material. With the help of two assistants, he was to complete a structure within ten minutes. The two "helpers" were stumblebum stooges, master tacticians at noncooperation and delay. What the psychiatrists wanted to see: how the candidate reacted to frustration...
...seven months there had been eight passenger train pile-ups on the three main lines running down the east coast to Florida resorts-the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line and Florida East Coast Railway. Three of the wrecks were in North and South Carolina, where the swift streamliners slide through the night...
...defendants filed back into Nürn-berg's courtroom. But even the arrogant Nazi war criminals could not work up much enthusiasm for wishing each other Prosit Neujahr (Happy New Year). Slowly but surely the case against them was building up. The Allied prosecution continued to pile up evidence, detailing their guilt with an endless chain of chilling facts. The civilized world, like the Nazis, might have become bored with these horror stories-a U.S. reporter muttered: "0 God, more of the same!"-but the prosecution had more to tell...
...bigger & better production methods were ready to take over, and Drs. Rentschler & Harden were able to quit their little makeshift. But in the emergency, they had supplied more than the asked-for three tons of pure uranium, for the first atomic pile...