Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's master builder is J. Irwin Miller, a civic-minded industrialist and former president of the National Council of Churches who is sometimes called "the Medici of the Middle West." In 1939, Miller startled Columbus by choosing the great Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen to design a new building for Columbus' First Christian Church. But it was not until 1957 that Miller really shook up the old town. By then he was board chairman of his family's Cummins Engine Co. and was concerned about the difficulty of attracting talented young executives to Columbus. So he announced...
Design plans for the athletic facility have been ready for quite a while and Radcliffe can have them anytime it wants, Joseph Hoskins, the architect who designed the building said yesterday...
...served as Assistant Secretary of War (during World War II), president of the World Bank, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and adviser to seven Presidents, received the institute's third Statesman-Humanist Award-which puts him in good company. The first two winners: Jean Monnet, architect of Europe's Common Market, and former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Willy Brandt. As old friends Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Anderson, chairman of the institute, listened, McCloy insisted modestly that his career has been marked "more by its length than its height." He is in fact still...
Edward Teller, principal architect of the H-bomb, reflecting on his life 25 years later: "I don't give a good damn what my public image is. I have one image of myself and that is of a man who is shaving...
...group of middle-aged, well-dressed men at the ball describe themselves as "lawyers and businessmen." A man dressed as Peter Rabbit confessed to being a Boston policeman. A well-heeled Cambridge architect came with several friends just looking for a good party. And a Paul Rever look-alioke claimed he owned a bar in Baltimore's equivalent to Boston's Combat Zone. Martin Slobodkin '41, premier Boston socialite, and Boston Globe gossip columnist Bill Fripp served as judges for several costume contests...