Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repairs & Shortages. In the face of tremendous demand for steel (total stocks are down to 7,000,000 tons, v. pre-strike inventories of 20 million), the industry will have onerous troubles getting back to full production. The lengthy strike caused considerable damage to open-hearth furnaces by cooling and contraction of bricks. One estimate is that some 300 of the 920 open hearths in the U.S. will need costly repairs...
Last week Getty set London abuzz with what seemed at first glance an amazing about-face. He announced that he was buying the Duke of Sutherland's vast Sutton Place mansion* on an estate near Woking, 23 miles from London (14 principal bedrooms. 20 servants' rooms, 16 baths, 140-ft. ballroom, 140-ft. library, and Great Hall with minstrels' balcony). Price for the house plus swimming pool, nine-hole golf course and 174 acres of parkland: a Getty secret, but probably well over...
Observations, by Richard Avedon. Photographer Avedon proves himself an accomplished face dropper in this fascinating series of keyhole studies of the famous...
...book, to be published today, makes no attempt to offer a final solution. Instead, it tries to clarify the relationship betwen the faculties of the American schools, their students, and the society they are going to face...
...necessary places, and a large fire escape that provides the characters with a refuge from one another. It is a serviceable job, but the convention that the blacks aren't there is weakened by hanging a picture on them, and the impressive fire escape occasionally hides someone's face just when we want...