Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 48

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pmdlre llll la baton my match with LaM For-Mich at Hungary I crimed my Iriamh down whan 1 want in Monaco trlllnq Iham that thli wot il practice play nobody ovar gat ahood at mo ily I wan flva games In a row a in points ahaad afnstvkinik two rounds to go Smyslov tarod a draw hi an Interior position at 21 mean and I accepted Maying It sate fnr once In ttis last round whan It was already certain that I was first I Nun-dared against nsbart Syrns and si rang hut that Is lust what happened la Fischer In Hie Monaco tournameri last yaor Ha Inst Is Sailer tha last round As mult at Ms (toy hors Syrns main QQolblb GOLD AND RED TAN EL OF (OTTON-WOOL from Fern 1000 to 1300 AD PAGE 12D SUNDAY JANUARY 36 1969 Megastructure Is Hot Item they were valued as gifts to dignitaries During the Renaissance tapestries became a symbol of wealth and power France Flanders Italy Spain and England began production on a large scale to meet the demands of royalty and the only groups which could afford them Factories were established family fortunes made and tapestry centers in Paris Tnurnai and Arras gained widespread recognition The word arras has become a pari of English and Kalian vocabulary meaning a tapestry woven hanging The collection Includes examples from most styles and tapestry weaving centers The silk and velvet tapestries embroideries needlework lace and printed textiles lell a story of man's constant demand for improvement and change The greatest masterpieces throughout the centuries have been textiles made with silk Originally known to the Chinese (legend establishes the date as 27 renturies BC) the art of silk cultivation nr sericulture spread to Arabia and then to Spain From travelers such as Marco Polo Italy became aware of the beauty of silk During the 17th century France became the European center for the industry Great Adornment Reanfifiil woven silks and velvet were not left unadorned Elaborate needlework in gold melal threads and beads rov- By MARY PAT IIOLGI! CMcoga Trtkum Sarvico CHICAGO Interest has been turning back to that time of our ancestors when they had to worry about materials lo offer protection against winlcr chill The textiles in a major exhibit that is nmv on display in I he Morion wing of I he Art Institute in (Tiicngo are not merely utilitarian although some of the lightly woven lapeslries would provide ample warmth Tilled of West' em Textiles" the exhibition scans 21 centuries weaving our hislory into its comprehensive point of view Oldest Work The oldest work in the collection is Peruvian elaborate tapestry and feathered ponchos dating (him the first century AI) and which reflect a tradition that can be traced back 4000 years Experts continue to be astounded by the mastery of techniques displayed by early artisans Tho it both pottery and metalwork Peru the craft remains today technique of tapestry Is as old as that of weaving most universal Its history in western civilization back to Egypt but it Europe during the Renaissance that the term became with the large wall that we associate with today Originally the function of tap- OXBRIDGE By CHARLES GOREN i nw TSe ctrceea Trtaian East-West vulnerable West deals NORTH AAQJ 7 Void OAXQJIIS A JIMS WEST EAST AMTII A VKQJ9I OS 0 ST4S A QSS ASTI SOUTH AXS64S VIMS OBI A AKI The bidding: megastructure was completed in a vastly reduced and compromised form as something less than the inexpensive General Mntors-type housing produd intended It was a hand-rrafted Cadillac an enormously costly nnnslandardized custommade model While it offered a tentative demonstration of a handsome and rational design principle it was also a sad rase history of produdion realities Study New York City and the Federal Department nf Housing and Urban Development are now In the middle of habitat studies Attracted to the economic and technological promise of Megas-I rupture housing they are coming In Ihe same economic and technological dead ends How minus that those dead ends should be produred by the most progressive of all scientific civilizations We can build small sophisticated exotic demonstration mlni-megas only The implicit masMtcale economics and efficiencies are unobtainable The status quo wins hands down This Is not he warned knokie teen-age pop no matter how many technological improbabilities it may contain Utopia after all ls Utopia It deals in cosmic lessons not instrudions for do-it-yourself On a less cosmic level Megas-tincture's more realistic versions offer provocative answers to large-scale building In theory these solutions to mass produced housing or educational commercial and cultural complexes are superbly scipniifical-ly logical In pradicp their logic runs smack into the nbsrrne obstacle course of tight money artificially inflated land rost archaic and restrictive union pradices obsolete and diverse building codes astronomic rests nr lonling fnr industrial production politics pighpadrdness and the virisxitudes of public and personal taste The process la being repealed fnr example for habitat Mnshe Safdie'a brain-child and beautiful obsession that was the showpiece nf Montreal's Expo 67 What atarted there as serious were brought to international attention with a London exhibition in 1963 Living City" Interest has been whetted by occasional publication of the group's Archigram magazine Archigram's theories of a total Megastructure environment expendable industrialized components attached to a framework nf circulation and services are richly buttressed by a spectacular abstract visualization nf Ihe kind of city that would he shaped hy systems approaches computerization and technology Service-and-traffic grids fed by duds contain rear rangeahle stacked housing and office units swung into place by cranes the whole thing creeps across the land on giant metal legs This is liug-in City Image Critic Reyner Banhani writing in the Walker Arts Center design quarterly railed Archigram's nf interchangeable living cells and support structures the first effective Image of the architedure nf technology since Buckminster Fuller's geo-drsir domes captivated the give his partner an opportunity to show another feature The five club bid announces possession of the king or second round control North reasoned at this point that hand consisted of at least five spades headed by the king and the ace king of clubs in which case 13 tricks could be five spades six diamonds and two clubs He therefore proceeded without further ado to seven spades West opened Die king of hearts which was ruffed in dummy with the Jack of spades The ace of spades was cashed followed by the queen If spades divided thrre-lwo as is the normal expectation South intended to reenter his hand wilh the king of I wjM clubs pull the outstanding trump with the king and then run the diamond suit When East showed out on the second round the contract was South drew one more weaving these predates in alive The almost and the reaches was in synonymous hangings the word exlrics damp passage walls rolonius in wait he streets By ADA LOl'ISE HUXTABIE Now Verb Tknei News Service NEW YORK It is time for an interim report on the progress of the hottest thing in the architectural field Megastructure The theory of Megastructure nr the gathering of many components into a single unit implying largeness or greatness as expressed in (he Greek root of the word has been hot for five years warming up fnr 10 or 15 and a source of thporetiral discourse king before that It is producing in various modifications some of today's most Interesting work What Megastructure amounts to with considerable flexibility in Interpretation is a way of meeting the frighteningly enlarged scale and needs of today's building It is proposed that this he dnnr by means of huge structures that are actually made lip of multiple small units that can he used over and over serially or as accretions In varieties nf modules through repetition and ultimately mass production These units can he hung from or slid into or connected with some form nf containing framework hut the Implication always is nf an evenexpanding number of smaller parts hooked into general system nf services and circulation Potential Megastructure has a lerhnn- i logical and functional rationale was lo lessen the chill of ered these textiles A chasuhlp stone walls Usually a nr sleeveless outer veslmpnl was left Ijetween I lie worn by a celebrant at mass and Ihe tapestry so that in the exhibit is heavily em-servants could walk unnntieedi hrmdered with symbolic pat-in such a passage that terns intended to protect against and the queen and listen for Hamlet as American examples In Ihe encountered Ophelia Tapestries also were used In line the on great occasions and SOLUnON iiaiafejpj i pjej collection demonstrate Ihe ingenuity of ihe early American housewife Although needlework became a status symbol of wealth and prosperity during the Elizabethan days of England It was a necessity to the American home Mary Queen of Scotland and Bess of Hardwick both had their professional embroiderers but the American housewife raised her own sheep and carded dyed spun and wove the wool herself to create samplers in tench her children and coverlets to keep them warm The exhibition which will con fjao Opening lead: King of Hearts Although holding falls I shade short of the require-nents for a demand opening In i minor suit it is worth observing that awkward rebid problems are apt to result ft he merely bids one diamond W'hen South made a positive response of two spades slam prospects blossomed forth In tract order to announce the fit and ease doomed round to ruffed defenders hearts four The to they of trumps and then tried run the diamonds West the second lead and the subsequently took two and one club to register a trick deficit defeat was doubly painful North and South inasmuch as could have fulfilled a con of seven diamonds with As long as North was II ra PJ Suaa DQHiuia MONEY CLIPS counting on taking five spade tricks he might just as well have bid seven diamonds as a permit 8 relaxed Investigation thereafter North raised to three spades South's four club call is tinuo throughout March 2 is -j 'mmuttvi 17H it cavil and a staggering composed of 170 pieces It was a cue bid showing first rnundjsafely not in men-control of that auit North rerip- tion the extra profit In declaring rocated In hearts in order to! 150 honors arranged hy the Institute's curator of textiles Christa Mayer liv-RIort Reed STAMP NOTES Historic Islands Honor War Attacks creative and esthetic potential At Its highest reaches it is violently anti-establishment anti-formal open-ended and non-ccn trie (In the sense that classically conceived architecture Is composed with a hack a front a heeinning and an end) deliberately rejecting symmetry balance and focus and all nf the time honored conventions of architectural rieign Bigger than any monument it disclaims mnnumentality fnr a social and Industrial Image It is one nf the most stimulating promlaing and problematic architectural developments of the 20th century Results In nractice and on paper range from the all-purpose university structure having a big vogue right now to Mcgaafrurture as the ritv nf the future a kind of prectornsct environment with disposal parts It goes all the administrative ban permanent and applicable to all US coins Fouler who favored this course of action at the Dec 5 meeting expressed the view that the present ban should be continued until Congress can decide the Issue through proper legislation Draft legislation will be prepared by the Treasury immediately and submitted to the new Congress I recall reading a sign in a Washington office that read: be a man IT your leader says you say Do silver dimes and quarter hare more than 5 cents-on-the dollar value? Richard Budde Minster Ohio DEAR MR BI'DDE: In answer to your flrt question the letter Inside of the Federal Reserve Seal Indirates the hank nf issue (2) Some paper nrren-ry collectors do boy silver certificates but they must either be several In a series or of special numbering arrangements (3) Yea ran write the director Bg reau of the Mint Washington DC They may tell yna the number of roles melted ta date Last silver dlmra and quarters are still worth fare value hut The Joint Commission on the Coinage met Dec 5 to consider certain recommendations presented by commission chairman Secretary of the Treasury Henry Fowler Two of Ihe more important recommendations concerned the future of the silver half-dollar and continuance of the ban on melting silver coinage As wss expected the secretary had hia way Hie outcome of polls taken among members clearly favored all proposals made by the chairman A substantial majority recommended the Treasury request legislation to authorize the minting of nonsilver riad-type 50--cent pieces lo replace Ihe exist RSARYOF Bj SYD KROXISH AP Newifeatares Ta the yoaager generation It's itory in a history book To millions of others it was a never to be forgotten episode which helped turn the tide of war And It happened only 25 years ago The time was November 1943 and the place was the small atoll of Tarawa in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the South Pacific To commemorate Ihe successful attacks by the US Marines a quarter of a century ago a set of four new stamps has been issued by the Gilbert snd Ellice Islands The three rents shows a wav from a specific system nfj ing 40 per ccnl silver half-dollar design being holdly explored! It further stiggesled that the here and ahroad to the purest Mint continue producing Ihe 40 Mlonian vision per cent silver rein al Ihe pres- Treud ent rale of 100 million pieces a hibited India has issued two new and interesting stamps A 20 piastre honors (he 21st International Geographical Congress held Dec 1-8 in New Delhi It was DEAR SIR: Is paper money with a rod seal worth saving? I saved blue seal bills and turned them in I have several $5 bills wilh red seals and wonder if I should keep them or put them -bfe quantities hack in circulation Mrs Anne Sterling Cohoes N'Y I tJkED: A recent news item mentioned a 3-penny DEAR MRS STERLING: l1p Higiey in Atanv factors govern the value onneci licut (Hi years ago of thw red seal bills other than llkf comments -just Ihe seal I suggest vnu send 1150 lo William Donkin th PKAR MRS' HGlEY: fnr "I 22nd edition of "A Guide Bonk of tutted States Coins" show a Stales Small Size Paper chart of the Tarawa Atoll wilh Betio Islet the location of the main battle Marines wading ashore from landing craft with shells bursting around them adorn the 10 cents The 15 cents illustrates battle scenes on Betio Itself The 35 cents features the raising of tha US flag and the Union Jack simultaneously on adjacent palm trees Money" It will describe these notes Ihefr condition and approximate value year until surti now authority was granted hy the Congress This decision certainly will never win a popularity rontest with the Silver Producers Association and it can contribute only to the already short circulation life of the much-prized Kennedy half-dollar The second nf Fowier'i recommendations to win majority approval was the continuation of the ban on melting US silver coins Authority to enforce this section of the 1064 Coinage Act was optional to the secretary of the Treasury and he elected to enforce it in spite of pressures brought to bear by senators and congressmen argiung in behalf of the Silver Users Association When all the absentee ballots were in (many of the commission members were not present at the meeting) the count favored asking Congress to enact legislation making the current lYrtinns lh best nf lh flrxl-Me expand ililc unlvrrslfy-ln-nne buildme experiments In Scarborough Colleen a hranrh of the University of Toronto that is now an object of architectural pilgrimage Designed hy John Andrews it combines two of most progressive trends: Megastructure and the New BrufalJsm This single stunning structure of rough concrete Is a continuous circulatory system embracing classroom units and student spaces A highly personal version of the prinriple has been constructed for the new Arts Center at the University nf niinois hy Walter Netsch of Skidmore Owing and Merrill Others are under way The most notable exponents of Megastructure in its most extreme form have been a rnali-Hon of English arrhilerls in their 2fl's and 3fl's called the Archigram Group whose theories ptcture of the HlgJey or Granbv coppers The story has ft that Higiey minted his owi coinage from copper he secured from his own mine near Granby Conn Although they were unauthorized pieces 3 penro coins did circulate in the rom-munily When the suppiv exceeded the demand Higiey coined new pi pres hearing this Roman numeral III and the In- the first time this organization's meeting was over held In an Asian country The design allows the world globe and the IGU official emblem Another 20 piastre commemorates the 400th anniversary of the Cochin Synagogue The design features an interior view of the temple Here's seme interesting notes from the auction fronts Part II The Sai Diegn International of the Pierson Lstrow stock sold Philatelic Exhibition (SANDT-hy Harmer Rooke in New York PEX) scheduled July 16-20 will during December amounted to probably be the largest philatel- $03000 High-priced items ln-ic event ever held in the Far eluded Lombardy-Venetia rc-West The occasion Ls the 200'h prints and revenues anniversary of the city jliMM Olympic Games issue San Priceless stamp displays from Marino and the Vatican In an Great Britain the Netherlands earlier auction the sale of two 20 Belgium Luxembourg New centimes French stamps (1849) Zealand Australia Spain For- brought $1000 Two He de fitgal Republic of Oiuia and Frame vertical pairs were told many other countries will be ex-1 for $5500 DEAR SIR: I wrote you several months ago and asked some questions but I am still in the dark Do the $1 and $5 bills wilh a letter on Hip face and an emblem with Washington PC on one side hare any special collec- APOLLO 8 SIX CENTS UNITED 8TATE8 APOUJ) 8 The Post Office Department has released this design of a six-cent postage stamp commemorating the Apollo 8 mission to the moon The stamp will he Issued May 5 wilh first day ceremonies at Houston The moon surface shows in foreground with distant earth at top of stamp tors' value? (2) Do vnlle(iors'rrtnHnn VALfE Me AS YOU still buy silver certificates IT so I PIFASE and I AM GOOD COP-what do they pay? (3) I have a IpFR These Higiey ropper are newspaper picture showing the quite valuable There are seven government melting silver 'dilferrnt pi errs running from dimes and quarters How many tag good condition to yjM hare they melted to date? (4) very good 4Mtoi6dWi mm N4MR tows.