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...Became a Bore. Today, says Jones, "a new specter stalks architecture, the monotony of endless glass façades." Among the old masters, Le Corbusier has turned from the '"pure prism" of his youth to an architecture that is pure sculpture. Other architects, each in his own way, are searching for riches the purists would have found intolerable. "Our architecture," said the late Eero Saarinen, "is too humble. It should be prouder, much richer and larger than we see it today...
Until the very end of the season, the newspapers, the public, and the rest of the National League steadfastly refused to take notice of the Redleg's feat, feeling that if they could only blink their eyes hard enough the specter would go away. Finally, as the year drew to a close, the bemused Cincinnati fans allowed themselves some dancing in the streets; but the resulting chaos was nothing like what Cincinnati could have done had its denizens been able to convince themselves the whole thing was true...
...they struggle to shake off the financial burdens of the subsonic jet, the airframe makers are haunted by another specter: the projected supersonic jet transport. To build a plane tough enough to withstand Mach 2 speeds would pose such immense problems that Boeing estimates development costs at $800 million. The most optimistic guess of the potential market for Mach 2s is only 450 planes by 1975; one longtime airline operator puts it as low as 50 ("a national prestige item"). There is every indication that the airframe manufacturers do not need two burnings by jet to learn their economic lesson...
Cattle and sheep graze over the vast domain of the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas, which saw its last nuclear explosion in 1958 when the U.S. and Russia informally agreed to stop testing. But the specter of the bomb still hangs over the landscape: the man who cares for the cattle rides the range with a radiation counter clipped to his shirt pocket. Last week, with resumption of testing still in the balance, the atomic cowpoke had plenty of company. Never abandoned by the AEC, the test site has blossomed with activity...
Serious Problem. Concern over continued unemployment has now replaced achievement of growth as the dominant theme in the Kennedy Administration's economic thinking. Part of the concern is political: the Administration clearly recognizes that the specter of unemployment is an effective lever for pushing its economic programs through Congress. But it also fears that the business upturn will not make any appreciable dent in the U.S.'s 5,500,000 unemployed, 1,800,000 of whom have been out of work for 15 weeks or more. Last week the Labor Department announced that, while the total of jobless...