Word: developers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arched Church of St. Francis were more sinuous and sensuous than any of the master's projects. "For five years after Le Corbusier's visit we followed him faithfully," said Niemeyer. "It was with Pampulha that we began to act more freely and Brazilian architecture began to develop...
Uncut Diamonds. "We're investment builders, creators, not land speculators," says Tishman. "We buy for a specific purpose: to develop." Tishman covers the whole spectrum of real estate, from buying and building to renting and managing. The company specializes in opening up new areas of cities, is often followed by other firms once it builds. "If you get there first," says Tishman, "you find remarkably little competition. I first trust my instincts to pick the sites, then take a thorough economic survey. If the survey bears out my instincts, we go ahead. If not, I stick with the survey...
Careful Eye. Tysen is convinced that some of the best buys are in the sunny resort lands of southern Europe. His Spanish subsidiary, formed only last month, is already dickering to develop a three-mile stretch of virgin coastline above Valencia into Europe's fanciest resort. "The world has gone sun crazy," says Tysen-and Previews intends to grab a place...
Great danger in all major operations inside the chest is that the nerve centers controlling breathing and heartbeat will stop. The deeper the anesthesia, the greater the danger. So surgeons and anesthesiologists have tried to develop "light anesthesia" methods, which should be safer. One way of checking whether the anesthesia is light enough, Marmer reasoned, was to make hypnosis a part of it so that the patient could be awakened during the operation...
Fighting dirt, dysentery and distrust, the salesmen are specialists in a unique investment operation known as Deltec S.A. Founded by a hard-driving Princetonian ('35), Clarence J. Dauphinot Jr., 44, Deltec has pioneered in raising investment capital in Brazil to develop new industries for the country and set a pattern that others are copying. Dauphinot, a onetime Wall Street foreign-bond trader, got interested in the project during trips to South America for Kidder, Peabody & Co. during World War II. He found that while Brazilian industry was starving for capital, money was stagnating in savings accounts and sewn...