Word: architecting
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...jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled old walk-up and occupies himself as, of all things, a string-bass player with the Boston Symphony...
Though Moses is still sharp-tongued and healthy at age 85, his epitaph, as Author Robert Caro points out, might well be the same as that of 17th century British Architect Christopher Wren: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you would see his monument, look around...
Died. Philip L. Rhodes, 79, prolific naval architect whose Manhattan firm laid down lines for 700 vessels ranging from mine layers to troopships during World War II but was best known for his designs of sailboats, among them the popular 11½-ft. Penguin dinghy, Bounty II, one of the first successful fiber-glass ocean racers, and the twelve-meter sloop Weatherly, winner of the 1962 America's Cup races; in New Rochelle...
Died. Carl Andrew ("Tooey") Spaatz, 83, architect of American air strategy during World War II; of heart disease; in Washington, D.C. A wiry, energetic West Pointer, General Spaatz directed the bombings that paved the Allied path from Africa to Sicily to Italy, then engineered the massive daylight bombardment of crucial German industrial targets. He later carried out the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after his opposition to the atomic bombing of cities had been overruled. When the Air Force became the military's third full branch in 1947, the erect, taciturn general was named its first chief of staff...
...teach law in 1969 but has spent as much time in court as in the classroom. One of the nation's ranking experts in criminal law and civil rights, he has defended Chicago Seven Attorney William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby Seale and Militant Angela Davis. He became principal architect of the campaign to abolish the death penalty, successfully arguing his case before the Supreme Court in 1972. A former clerk for the late Felix Frankfurter and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Amsterdam has a passion for underdogs of any kind. "After the revolution," he says jokingly...