Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Managua-based administration, Granada sent out its own ham radio call for aid; sure enough, a few days later a plane from Houston landed at Las Mercedes loaded with food and medical supplies marked for transshipment to Granada. On a less parochial level, many Nicaraguans agree with Managua Architect Samuel Barreto that a new capital should be located elsewhere if only to "spread the life of the nation throughout the country...
...architect of the Kennedy complex, hopes to have the library completed by July 1976. Early last month he unveiled tentative plans which included a semi-circular building housing the memorial to the late President a library and the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics. That building is bordered on two sides by the "related facilities" building which includes 150 luxury condominium apartments and commercial space...
President Bok appoints Claude Levi-Straus to be the New University Architect. "We need a good Structuralist around here", Bok explains. "Now that we've built Gund Hall, maybe Dr. Levi can tell us what it's for." In an uncharacteristic display of independence, the Senate erupts in a barrage of catcalls and Bronx cheers until Spiro Agnew and a phalanx of Sergeant-at-Arms convince Congressional spitoons to turn on their former masters Frank Fisher, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning releases a report entitled What the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1973 Wants...
...converge at Donovan's Copper Bar or the Nu Gnu or the Ore House, where the talk-and interest-seems to focus on skiing above all else, even sex. The newest favorite place is the Ichiban, a Japanese restaurant run by a sociologist, a dental hygienist and an architect-all of them people under 30 who left their careers and homes in Boston and Seattle in order to live close to the mountain. This is the scene at Vail, Colo., an instant alpine community that is the most successful winter resort built in the U.S. in the past decade...
...sides could not agree on a signing date that was acceptable to both Brandt and Stoph. It also seemed that the Communist leaders were not eager to welcome Brandt in East Berlin; they probably feared a repetition of the embarrassingly enthusiastic chants of "Willy, Willy!" that greeted the architect of Ostpolitik on his trip to the East German town of Erfurt in 1970. In the wake of Brandt's reelection, his popularity in the East is at a peak-which is why the Stoph regime is not likely to let him visit the German Democratic Republic until next year...