Word: fa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more returns. The Republicans' own best calculating machine. Party Chairman Leonard Hall, was confident enough to predict before 9 o'clock that Ike was riding home on a landslide. At about the same moment, young John Fell Stevenson, the Democratic candidate's son, left his fa ther's hotel room for the moment, was asked the state of morale inside. Said...
Behind the somewhat sham façade of force, a deadly serious game of consequences was being played. The Egyptians are in serious trouble over keeping Suez Canal pilots on the job. Right after Nasser took over, the old French company shrewdly offered all foreign pilots a three-year salary guarantee (average: about $11,000 a year) in return for a declaration of loyalty to the company. All but 40 of the 205 skilled navigators are foreigners-including 61 French. 54 British, two Americans. At least two-thirds signed the pledge...
...architect with the $100 million, 25-building General Motors Technical Center outside Detroit, hailed by Architectural Forum as "an architectural feat which may be unique in our time." A model of modern architecture, the G.M. center has glistening expanses of aluminum, greenish glass and grey porcelain façades, interchangeable office paneling and windows "zippered in" with neoprene gaskets...
...clashes with every building in the area. Saarinen's answer was to show what he meant in his plan for the new design of the U.S. embassy on London's Grosvenor Square by keeping the structure modern but keying the floor levels and spacings of the front façade to the surrounding Georgian buildings. He also got off his mind another pet peeve: that too much modern ages poorly. He designed the embassy in Portland stone, London's traditional building trim which ages to a contrasting rain-washed white and deep, sooty black...
...will still be allowed to play ring-around-a-rosy with the tax collectors. As private capital disappears from the stock market, industrialists fear that they will have to borrow from government-controlled banks instead. The stock market, a major pillar of free enterprise, would thus become an ornamental façade for a socialist economy that is already 40% government-owned. Italian financial leaders have tried to convince the government that a dividend tax levied directly on corporations would be cheaper to collect and harder to dodge. But last week, after a long series of conferences with fellow Ministers...