Word: cementation
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...plaintive entry in the Yule log at Honolulu police headquarters: a crew of canny thieves got into the sumptuous home of venerable (76) Multycoon (steel, cement, jeeps, aluminum) Henry J. Kaiser, filched a $500 watch and a sackful of other expensive trifles from underneath the Christmas tree...
Turning 25, Japan's slender, donnish Prince Akihito downed green tea and bean cakes at a sedate trio of parties (one with his kin, another with Fiancee Michiko Shoda, a third with 60 old classmates at Gakushuin University), tentatively accepted a birthday gift designed to cement the bonds between the budget-conscious imperial family and a local construction firm: an offer to build the foundations and outer shell (cost: $150,000) of Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers...
...schooling for their five children rather than submit them to Youth Dedication. All five backed up their parents, are learning manual trades instead. One bishop's son renounced higher education on his own. rather than undergo the pagan ceremony, is now working as an unskilled laborer in a cement plant...
Quincy in December is still little more than a seven story cement and steel shell with elevator shafts. Few people can imagine its completion by September. Only two resident tutors and a handful of associates have thus far been named. Yet 260 students, almost twice the anticipated number, have filed applications for residence in the new House in the fall...
Tapies, brightest young (35) man to come out of Spain since those electric uncles of modern art, Picasso, Dali and Miro, allowed that his picture represented "nothing at all." His pigments were mixed with "something like cement-it's almost like relief work." La Pintura does in fact suggest the Costa Brava's austere spaciousness-rocks, sea and fishing boats...