Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful editorial voices in the world-Izvestia (circ. 1,800,000), official organ of the 15 Soviet states, and Pravda (circ. 5,560,000), the mouthpiece of the Communist Party. While Pravda and Izvestia are two of the most widely known of all press names, their behind-the-walls operation is perhaps the least understood...
...years Anaconda Co. was the press lord of Montana, owning seven dailies* in five of the state's major cities. Last week Anaconda's Board Chairman Clyde Weed announced that the company aimed to sell all seven papers. Behind the decision is the story of how Anaconda bought newspapers to consolidate its hold on Montana, came to discover that they were doing the company more harm than good...
Trial by Fire. What has kept Torroja largely unknown is that most of his work is to be seen only in Spain. But the very fact that Spain is woefully short on steel supplied the driving force behind Torroja's exploration of concrete as a material that could be both cheap and strong. The son of a Catalan mathematics professor, Torroja trained as an engineer at Madrid University, then worked for five years as a contractor before finally deciding that "the structure of concrete cannot be figured mathematically-it is much stronger than the mathematician can prove...
...Algeciras with a 156-ft. spherical dome, a shelter still ranked as a classic of shell construction. The next year he evolved a scheme for the Madrid Hippodrome, in which a series of soaring shell roofs (see color) were so delicately cantilevered that a thin, vertical tie rod behind the stands was all that was needed to keep them in equilibrium. In Spain's Civil War, the Hippodrome was subjected to trial by fire-it was shelled and took 26 hits. But Torroja's structure survived, bedraggled but still sound...
Still hampered by foot injuries, the Crimson's Joel Landau saw his two hurdle crowns go to Bill Johnson of Maryland and Bill Szeyller of Penn State. Landau did not oppose Johnson in the highs, and the best he could do in the lows was a third behind Szeyller's 23.1. The varsity's Tom Blodgett turned in a 14.8 performance in the high hurdle semifinals but was eliminated...