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...gifts began pouring in to Blair House. The first grade at Nance School in Clinton, Okla., wrote that they had seen him on television and wished him well. Kindergarten children in a Long Island public school spent the $1 surplus from their cookie fund for a couple of plastic toys, some crayons, a coloring book, lollipops and a jigsaw puzzle, sent them along to the hospital...
...much of the quibbling produced by the cautious politics and flaring passions that surrounded the King himself. The little prince had indeed stolen the show. The proof, in a sense, lay in the two extra trunks bought in the U.S. by the Arabs, in which will be shipped the plastic toys and doodads that are gifts from American children...
...Alvar Aalto showed that the same thing could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which dovetail into stacks for storage, that today makes him a modern bestseller and last week earned him the American Institute of Architects...
...modern U.S. architecture is now dividing between the skeletal slabs on one hand and voluminous concrete-shell structures on the other, so is the architects' furniture. George Nelson's "coconut" chair uses a sheet-metal shell over which leather or plastic is stretched to get a three-dimensional object that is pleasing to look at from any direction, even from the bottom. Standing with the cubist purists is Mies-trained Architect Florence Knoll (widow of Designer Hans Knoll). Designing simple benches, storage cabinets, desks and tables, each rigidly engineered and precisely designed, she has built a modern setting...
Instead of classrooms, Caudill & Co. have Learning Labs, with light plastic walls that can be put up and taken down in a trice. Along with the Learning Labs are Teaching Elevators that can be equipped by Central Service in any way a teacher wants. Suppose, say the architects, a teacher wants "an aviary with six different species of birds and a soundproof booth where recorded birdcalls can be played ..." What does she do? She simply rings up Central Service, which lowers a Teaching Elevator, equips it as requested, then sends it back up again-"and the teacher has a tailor...