Word: architects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles bankers who contributed $1,500,000 each to Mrs. Chandler's fund drive. The three-building complex cost only $34 million, much less than half the $91 million that New Yorkers paid for their four-theater Lincoln Center. Another individual who eased the cost was Architect Welton Becket, who contributed over a million dollars in services...
...Vietnam involvement marches under the semantic banner as the containment of Communism," Kennan said. As a leading architect of containment and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kennan attacked Vietnam as a radical departure from the principles underlying American support of European reconstruction at the end of World...
...should also have been mentioned that the architect for the master plan and for Lake Anne Village was William J. Conklin, B.Arch, 1950. Robert S. Sturgis '44, B.Arch...
...Smithfield clothworker, Inigo Jones was trained as a painter, studied in Italy, and was largely responsible for putting England back into the mainstream of Renaissance cul ture, from which it had been isolated by the Reformation. Appointed the Crown's surveyor-general in 1615, Jones turned into an architect of note, designing the portico to St. Paul's Cathedral and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall with the serene neoclassicism of Italy's Palladio, thus banishing forever burly Tudor beams and gables...
While former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is known as the architect of the postwar economic recovery that West Germans refer to as the Wirtschaftswunder, a slight, self-assured man named Heinz Nordhoff is certainly one of the nation's master builders. Because he had run wartime Germany's biggest military truck plant, U.S. occupation authorities restricted him to manual labor. The more pragmatic British tapped him to revive a Wolfsburg auto factory which had been so badly bombed that, Nordhoff was later to recall, it "didn't even smell good enough for the Russians." That plant had once...