Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to be an architect. After a year at Kansas City Junior College, where he got in trouble for firebrand editorials in the school paper, he worked for two years as a plumber and draftsman in Chicago, saved enough money to study architecture at the University of Illinois...
...enough French towns were destroyed, according to famed Edouard Le Corbusier, pioneer of town planners and functional architect...
Died. John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, 62, Great Britain's most brilliant socio-political economist and monetary expert, a principal architect of the Bretton Woods Plan; of a heart attack; in Firle, Sussex (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...fight it out on Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh's line if it took all summer-and next winter too. But it might not take that long. Things looked better, though not perfect, as the UNO Security Council convened this week at Hunter College in The Bronx. A woman architect even thought she could improve the arrangement of the azaleas, magnolias and dogwoods stacked against the east wall of the conference chamber. "It looks like a Third Avenue wedding," she cried, and began to shove the pots around...
From the wings, most plays seem chaotic; so do most geniuses. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings might argue him a clear well of disciplined, harmonious art; but in his son's backstage biography, My Father Who Is on Earth (Putnam; $3.50), the great man sometimes looks more like a ham actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers...