Word: downtowne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five years ago Grimes got interested in a kink in London's medieval wall near St. Giles Cripplegate Church in the downtown "City" of London. It angled suggestively, as if it were enclosing something about 200 yards square. Grimes selected the site of some blitzed office buildings, dug a trench and found the face of a solid wall made of Kentish ragstone, the Romans' favorite building material. Combined with the kink in the medieval wall, it outlined roughly a square Roman fort...
...East Air Force moved its headquarters from downtown Tokyo, where its presence has irritated Japanese, to an Air Force base in suburban Fuchu...
...Middle East crisis should be handled through the U.N.; 2) foolproof inspection and controls must precede disarmament; 3) NATO cooperation in nonmilitary fields should be improved. Pineau got in ten minutes in Walter Reed with the President (who asked about the situation in Algeria), and then drove downtown to address an audience of members and guests of the National Press Club...
...boom are apparent everywhere. On what used to be wasteland at the edge of Mexico City, workmen recently planted 10,000 lampposts along the street network of a big new housing development. One of Latin America's biggest medical centers is rising on 33 acres of downtown land-and it is only one of 6,000 new buildings, many of them spectacularly clad in plate glass or bright-colored masonry, that are going up yearly in the capital...
Outwardly, Eero (pronounced arrow) Saarinen (rhymes with far-'n-then) looks like a country family doctor, dresses with the casualness of a young college prof, prefers to live clear of the cities, in the rolling countryside of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (pop. 2,100), 18 miles from downtown Detroit. His headquarters is a simply constructed, often cluttered office shed he designed for himself, just two minutes' drive from his home over winding country roads. Even with an office staff of 43, Saarinen's is a small operation by comparison with the major U.S. architectural organizations, e.g., Skidmore, Owings...