Word: becket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Designed by Architect Welton Becket (who has worked on the new airports expansion projects at Los Angeles and San Francisco), McCarran Field's 38,850 sq. ft. hexagonal waiting building consists of three identical sweeps of vaulted concrete like wings, arching from the ground to a 45-ft. peak, and illuminated by vast areas of tinted glass "to portray the beauty and grace of soaring flight and the simplicity and endlessness of space. From the moment the passenger enters the winglike ticketing building to the time he leaves the spacious, vaulted terminal with its feeling of motion, he will...
...looming over the entrance like a monstrous radiator grille, will occupy a seven-acre site in the fair's transportation section, and will contain a "ride to the far corners of the earth." » THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY PAVILION, designed and engineered by Welton Becket, will have a 235-ft., glass-enclosed rotunda surrounded by 64 arching pylons. Adjoining this main entrance will be a flared rectangular exhibit building seven stories tall which will house a show to be created by Walt Disney. » THE BELL SYSTEM PAVILION, its ancient bell symbol blazoned incongruously on a dynamic modern facade...
...gold-lettered credits (including La Strada), few people -least of all Anthony Quinn-thought of him as a so-called actor of stature until suddenly there he was up on a Broadway stage as England's King Henry II, exchanging complicated philosophies with Sir Laurence Olivier in Becket...
Early in the third stanza, Saybrook showed its last remnants of life. Aided by a pair of penalties, they marched 45 yards to the Harvard 30 with halfback Pete Becket leading the drive. But Eliot recovered a fumble on the 30, and on the next play Wood dashed 57 yards to the Saybrook 12; three plays later he went up the middle to make the score...
...motion picture ever made, although no one has seen it but Producer Spiegel and his bodyguard. O'Toole has been hailed as "a new Olivier," becoming roughly the 29th young actor to be so described. Next spring, he and Richard Burton will begin making the film version of Becket (he is Henry II; Burton is Becket). After that, O'Toole will appear in his own movie production of Waiting for Godot. Columbia Pictures and Alan Jay Lerner want him for the role of Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (making him the new Rex Harrison...