Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Increase cooperation in developing the peaceful uses of atomic energy, especially control of thermonuclear fusion and design of fast-breeder reactors...
...centuries. Yet his principles were studied as avidly in Stockholm and Leningrad as they were by Thomas Jefferson in Virginia, or by the elite of English Palladian architects like Inigo Jones, William Kent and Lord Burlington. By 1850, two continents were dotted with Palladian structures. Even Jefferson's design for the President's Mansion was a copy of the Villa Rotonda near Vicenza (1550); it was not built, but today's White House still remains recognizably Palladian in spirit...
...Michigan are already being developed. There, the Illinois Center Corp. is building $1.5 billion worth of offices, apartments and parking garages and hotels. Important as an extension of the business district, the project also upgrades the city with good architecture (buildings by Mies van der Rohe) and good urban design (pedestrian malls, plazas). It uses two levels of underground streets to separate trucks and autos from pedestrians, who will have the normal street level largely for themselves...
...hull is a classic; its lineage traces back to a 19th century naval architect named Colin Archer, who was commissioned to design a boat for harbor pilots going out to meet incoming sailing ships. Archer developed a double-ended hull capable of standing offshore for weeks at a time, then making for home shorthanded in steep northern seas...
...amateur practitioner of all those professions, Colvin figures that having designed and built nearly 200 boats, he has been on the beach long enough. Now 48, he has put his shop and his home up for sale, put his drawing table and drafting instruments aboard ship, and is getting ready to go to sea once more in a new aluminum junk of his own design. "I'm not retiring," he insists. "But I've paid my dues I ashore. I'm going sailing." Which means, as any cruising man knows, he is going back to the good...