Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Getty's world is Getty Oil Co., the core of one of the most complex corporate structures ever built. As Getty Oil's president and chief stockholder, he owns or controls some 40 companies, ranging from Tidewater Oil Co. to firms that make trailers, own hotels, sell life insurance. Wherever Getty happens to be, there is centered the world of Getty Oil and its satellites. In an age of teamwork, J. Paul Getty is the last of a vanishing breed: an autocratic tycoon who runs his own show, has nothing but contempt for the modern, hemmed...
...Board of Education estimates that there are about 9500 "hard-core delinquents" in the elementary and secondary schools. This is only one per cent of the student population, but determined junior toughs can make life miserable for teachers and earnest students, besides attracting immature admirers...
...recent conference with Governor Harriman, the city received assurance that it would get another six "600" schools by fall, and also that the full-time correctional facilities would be enlarged. This still falls short of what is needed and will leave about 6500 of the 9500 hard-core delinquents in regular schools...
...board's new policy holds up, it may affect as many as 9,500 students-the i% of the school population estimated to be the hard-core punks. It raised a howl among some teacher and civic groups as "an act of desperation" and "an abject surrender to pressure," and there was talk that the policy might be challenged in the courts. Since the city is desperately short of means to keep rein on delinquents awaiting trial, some officials joined the critics in wondering whether the board was not merely turning them "right out into the streets...
Resting on steel piles that extend 85 ft. through mud and clay to bedrock underlying the Loop, Inland's main building rises 19 stories, with thin, stainless steel mullions retaining the 10-ft.-tall green-tinted glass windows. Joined to it is the windowless service core, towering 80 ft. above the main structure, and sheathed in small panels of dull stainless steel. Architecturally, it is as striking as the building it serves. Unlike its street-crowding neighbors, the Inland structure is set back far enough to provide a small plaza...