Word: award
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...architecture, practical success did not come for Walter Gropius until he was in his mid 70s. In 1945, he opened a Cambridge, Mass., office, called The Architects Collaborative, but his teaching left little time for commercial design. It was only after Gropius left Harvard in 1952 that the big, award-winning commissions started to come in: the U.S. embassy in Athens, the University of Baghdad, academic buildings for Phillips Academy at Andover, Harvard and Brandeis Universities. At his death, his firm had $315 million worth of work in progress, including a satellite city (named Gropiusstadt) outside Berlin, a vast medical...
Ever since his disclosures, Fitzgerald -who was nominated by the Air Force in 1967 for a Distinguished Service Award-has labored in a kind of Pentagon purgatory. His civil service status, routinely given any appointee at his level after three years of service, was revoked because of "a computer error." He says that his mail is being opened. One letter even bore the initials and stamp of the "action officer" who had opened it. He still toils quietly in the same windowless, fifth-floor office. Instead of monitoring the costs of the multibillion-dollar...
...Pool. Consider these vignettes. A notorious mobster is honored publicly with a good-citizen award-because he contributed a large sum to a local college football team. A nun, in full habit, draws cheers from onlookers as she leans over a craps table and screams: "Cooooome, seven! A promoter dreamily describes one of his latest brainstorms: for the opening of a new restaurant, he plans to fill a reflecting pool with piranhas and toss them a live...
...Reasoner discussing Americans' fascination with automobile races: "They don't come to see a crash, but if there were never any crashes they'd never come," Because of such commentaries, Harry Reasoner is widely recognized for his wit and perception; in 1966 he received a Peabody Award for his droll television essays. Reasoner is indeed wit ty and perceptive, as he shows in the radio and TV scripts he writes himself...
Recently the Civil Aeronautics Board, with its three Democrats voting aye and its two Republicans nay, recommended that Continental get routes from the East Coast through the Southwest to Micronesia, Australia and New Zealand. Last week Nixon again vetoed the award to Continental. He strongly suggested that the South Pacific route will go instead to financially troubled Eastern Air Lines, in which Laurance Rockefeller holds a substantial interest...