Word: bricks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dwindling along with the poles and messengers. Venerable Western Union is transforming itself into a new kind of telecommunications giant, using the latest pushbutton automation to provide a range of services as broad as electronic wizardry allows. This week, from the top of its 24-story brick-pile headquarters in lower Manhattan, the company will inaugurate its biggest diversification yet: a 7,500-mile $80 million transcontinental microwave system that will transmit teletype, telephone, facsimile or computer-tape messages with equal ease...
Radcliffe students and administration clashed at Thursday's RGA meeting in a discussion of the suitability of the living conditions in the brick dormitories...
...motion, students mentioned the fact that over two-thirds of Radcliffe seniors are presently living off-campus. "The Administration should certainly take into account such an overwhelming preference for off-campus living," one member of the legislature remarked. "There is obviously something seriously wrong with living conditions in the brick dormitories...
...yearly budget for its planning commission provides Bacon with a $20,000 salary and a staff of 65, including 14 architects, seven engineers, three economists, three experts in social science or government, a landscape architect and a mathematics expert. Appropriately enough, Bacon lives in a four-story brick row house in midtown, a 15-minute walk from his office. His outside activities are not exactly wide-ranging. During winter term he conducts an evening course (Historic Examples of Civic Design) at the University of Pennsylvania...
...tongued banker can be jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from his oil, insisted on burying his bank notes in his mud-brick palace-until silverfish began drilling through the bundles...