Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turns, and victims everywhere enjoy a victory against the common bureaucrat. Recently Builder Eric Neate. constructing a small factory at Andover in Hampshire, routinely sent a blueprint of the factory to the County Planning Committee. Complying with committee orders that all factories must have flower beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate intend planting? Back to the committee went Neate's reply: he was planning to plant Urtica dioica, Calystegia sepium, Rnmex obtusijolius and Taraxacum offi-cinale-but was willing...
Hippocrates, retained his faculties until the end, died (according to Cicero) with "pen in hand" at 80. Michelangelo worked hard as chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica up to his death at 89. Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania...
...Secretary of State Dulles, architect of the strong Far East policy that has kept Red China locked up inside its borders since 1955, it was a week of unrelenting and bitter pressures. On Monday, he conferred with President Eisenhower on Quemoy, found the President occupied and deeply disturbed by U.S. and Euro pean press criticism (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES). On Tuesday, only minutes before his press conference, Dulles sent down for a handful of State Department mail to be picked out at random, read many letters from the U.S. public that said something like "Don't let's have...
Proposals to purchase a different site and hire an architect and builder hinge on Prince Sadruddin's "ability to come through" with his pledge, the Islamic Society president declared...
High Return. Accepting the challenge, young (41) Detroit Builder Herbert S. Greenwald and famed German-born Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe turned out a design that won architects' praise, bank loans, FHA mortgage guarantees. As fast as they complete one building unit, they pay the city an average of $125,000 for the land. The city then buys more slum land for urban renewal. Not only merchants will profit from the redevelopment; city real-estate tax collections from the area will jump...