Word: bassett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed the highly engineered John Hancock building in Chicago, likes to use computers to figure out the precise calculations, such as how much aluminum can be pared from window frames (the answer saved Shell $200,000 in Houston). The driving force in the San Francisco office is Charles Bassett, 46, a touseled six-footer who came to S.O.M. from the office of the late Eero Saarinen. He ranges widely in styles, designed the Alcoa building, the Mauna Kea Hotel in Hawaii, and the bare-boned Oakland-Alameda County stadium, which he boasts is a beauty "with no rouge...
...Dartmouth 24, Harvard 6--Bill King's two touchdowns and Don Mac-Kinnon's linebacking carried Dartmouth to an easy win, despite an 82-yard touchdown pass to Taylor from Mike Bassett...
...blockading the port of Haiphong or even adding many new targets to be bombed. There is a "growing danger," said the paper, "that the means being used to prevent a Communist takeover may soon pass beyond the military boundaries which define limited war." According to Editorial Director James Bassett, "There's been an evolution in our thinking. As we begin to come up against the last of the options, we become gravely concerned about proliferation of the war and the limits to which our offensive actions should go in Viet...
...decree handed down at London's Queen's Bench Court. There, concluding 43 days of hearings on the question of continued fixed retail prices in the candy industry, a panel of bewigged judges decided that they should be unfixed. Britain's five major candymakers-George Bassett & Co. Ltd., Cadbury Brothers Ltd., J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd., John Mackintosh & Sons Ltd., and Rowntree & Co. Ltd.-were ordered to end resale price maintenance. Hardly was the sense of the 45-minute decision clear when supermarkets, alerted by telephone, cut candy prices by as much as 25%. As the word spread...
...Three others-Charles Bassett, Elliot See Jr. and Theodore Freeman-died in jet-plane crashes. The Soviets are known to have had only two cosmonaut casualties: one in a high-altitude parachute jump that is required of all space trainees, the other in an auto accident...