Word: build
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...hardly goes anywhere without bringing along his pet shot in a brown bowling bag. As far as he's concerned, the M in A. & M. stands for Emil Mamaliga, 44, an assistant coach for the varsity swimming team, who started Randy lifting weights to build up his rangy frame. "You can't fire a 16-in. shell from a PT boat," Mamaliga insisted. "You have to have a big, heavy ship." By last fall's Olympics in Tokyo, Matson tipped the scales at 260 lbs., astounded everybody by flinging the shot...
Venice is the greatest of museum cities, and it guards its monuments jealously. In fact, the city has largely resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...knows well, as a ducal palace or a gondola garage, the design should please Venetians. Yet, however harmonious this adventuring architecture, there is still much bureaucratic approval to survive. San Giobbe hospital refers, of course, to Job. And for the sick as well as for an architect wishing to build in Venice, Job's patience is an ideal...
Necessary Mystery. When the U.S. team of architects, M.I.T.-trained Armand Bartos and Viennese-born Frederick Kiesler were approached by the Israeli government and asked to build a shrine for the scrolls, they knew that a boxlike building could fulfill the function. But they were struck by the historic coincidence in 1947 of the discovery of the 2,000-year-old scrolls in the Essene-sect caves with the re-emergence of the state of Israel. Deciding that the twin events cried out for symbolic representation, they found their guideline in the mystery that man from time immemorial has associated...
...bulwark of Sweden's defense effort. The company has built about 90% of its country's 700-plane jet air force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build 800 Saab-designed Viggen multipurpose jet fighters, a force that will form Sweden's main line of defense during the 1970s. The Viggen project will be the largest industrial undertaking in Sweden's history, involving an expenditure of $1.6 billion over a twelve-year period...