Word: cementation
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DETROIT'S SOFT SPOT this year will be sales of heavy-duty trucks, i.e., more than 19,500 Ibs., which are off 11%, will total about 197,000 for the year. Makers point to tapering off in industries that use big trucks - home building, cement, aircraft...
...dusk sifted last week around the bleak brick flats that have replaced the even bleaker dockside slums of London's East End, tired factory workers settling down for another evening in front of the telly were roused by a clangorous racket. Peering into the almost-deserted, cement-paved play area of Boyce Way, they made out a brown-robed, sturdily striding figure swinging a schoolbell and shouting: "Come to the play on a cart...
...before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
...Ponti is perhaps the world's top designer, and the busiest. He put up his own pavilion to display a living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath in which every object is a product of his own imagination. The pavilion walls are of translucent vitreous cement in various colors. Inside are glass bookcases in which the books seem to float on air, tables whose color varies with the angle of view, an austere double bed. Asked to explain some of the items, blocky, bristly Ponti bubblingly obliged...
...wreckage, rescue workers dug through the rubble. The scene of deepest disaster, a collapsed apartment building at Avenida Alvaro Obregón and Calle Frontera, which claimed the lives of 33 of its 45 residents, sent Builder Idel Rosenfelt to jail on charges of negligence, i.e., using poor cement. Many of the city's survivors would have to learn to live permanently with tragedy. One woman, who was dug free after lying huddled for 27 hours with the bodies of her husband and baby, went...