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Pier Luigi Nervi is a great builder because Italy is scarce in trees and World War II demolished northern Italy. A stupid thing to say, I know, for even before the War Nervi had demonstrated undeniable genius as an engineer. Yet Nervi's is the genius of solving problems. Destruction and financial ruin in Italy necessitated speed and economy, driving Nervi to the discovery of "ferro-cement," a new reinforced concrete--cheaper, more elastic, and, of the essence, more rapidly constructed than older versions...
...material substituted flexible steel mesh for timber, in a way that simplified the cementing process and thus allowed for vital short-cuts in reinforced concrete construction. The substance could be mass-produced at a ferro-cement factory established by Nervi in 1945. Prefabrication, a second vital innovation, allowed the builder to transport parts from a center of mass production to the building site and simplified the actual job of erecting the structure...
Flash of Rebellion. After Per&243;n the vivo, Frondizi-the austere, finger-wagging intellectual-was an emotional frustration. The next-to-youngest of 14 children born to an immigrant Italian bridge builder, Frondizi was a shy, unexceptional youth, who showed his first flash of spirit in 1930 against then Dictator Jose Uri-buru. Frondizi completed a six-year law course in three, with honors. But on graduation day he stood on the platform, and refused to accept his honors certificate "from a government put in power and maintained by military force...
...present turntable; an adapter enables as many as four people to hook in their stethoscopes, hover over the set like surgeons on a joint operation. Price: $9.95 > For the far-gone addict, there is suburbia's newest blandishment: the Stereo House, a gimmick dreamed up by Builder-Promoter Al Horowitz of Jericho, L.I. Equipped with Harmon-Kardon audio components, the 1½-story living room features a splayed ceiling to disperse stereo sound in all directions (no more searching for the ideal chair to listen from), is separate from the rest of the house. Amplifiers may be cranked...
Died. Isabel Dodge Sloane, seventyish, blunt and steely auto heiress who became the first lady of U.S. horseracing; following intestinal surgery; in Palm Beach. Daughter of Pioneer Auto Builder John F. Dodge, she shied away from high society to devote her energies to her Brookmeade Stables, won the track's richest laurels with thoroughbreds Cavalcade (1934 Kentucky Derby winner) and Sword Dancer (top money-earner of 1959), but rarely rode herself...