Word: alhambra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nancy Campbell '56 of Alhambra, Calif, and Bertram Hall was elected President of the Radcliffe Student Council last night. Runners-up for the office were Hope Layton of New York City and Barnard Hall, and Janemarie McKelvie of Arlington...
...work from imagination. It was lucky for me that I left Italy-but to do what I have done since, I had to have all that nature first." Even in his Italian days, however, Escher had a passion for patterns. Then the abstract mosaics in Spain's Alhambra suggested to him the possibility of combining tight, flat patterns with illusions of spatial depth, and he has been drawing elaborate illusions ever since. "All my works," Escher says mildly, "are games. Serious games...
Like Morrison, dozens of other U.S. builders are working around the globe. From the West Coast, Alhambra, Calif.'s C. F. Braun & Co. has gone to Australia to build a $25 million refinery for Standard-Vacuum Refining Co.; the Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Los Angeles has five projects abuilding in Japan, three in India, three more in Turkey and Iran, others in Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side...
...BARRIO Alhambra, Calif...
...months of 1953, many of them in the humpbacked little Volkswagen that are driving British cars off Central Europe's roads. Millions more camped by picture-postcard rivers or along the Baltic shores. Germans pointed Leicas at Rome's Colosseum, Istanbul's bazaars, Granada's Alhambra. Their wives thumbed the lingerie in the Faubourg St. Honoré, where Parisian shopkeepers endured the hated language for the sake of the Deutsche mark. Richer folk drove to Greece by way of Yugoslavia, and one of them reminded his host that he had passed this way before...