Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyers' market, people are no longer satisfied with yesterday's dominolike housing developments. Location and landscaping have become vital. In Southern Cali fornia's Orange County, long one of the state's boomingest areas, thousands of houses are going begging, while developments in the San Fernando Valley are still a sellout. One big reason is that Orange County is becoming heavily industrialized; people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story is the same in Atlanta, where builders are discovering that prospective buyers...
Copying the masters can be instructive as well as opportune for personal expression as Fernando Texidor demonstrates in his work done mostly for courses. The study of figures from a painting by Piero della Francesca indicates Texidor's understanding of the artist's monumental style, but his own color sense is none too inspiring and his feeble attempts at design make the noble Italians into something approaching jail birds...
Died. Charles Edward Taylor, 87, designer and builder of the four-cylinder, 12-h.p. aircraft engine used by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk; of asthma; in San Fernando, Calif...
...scale up a notch, so U.S. businessmen were no longer content with existing facilities. In their steady drive to produce more, they laid out $28 billion for new plants and equipment in 1955, 5% more than 1954. California's economy grew with gold-rush speed. In the San Fernando Valley a citrus farmer was tempted to take $3,500 an acre from a housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said he: "I just wanted you to know that...
...Fernando Corena, as Don Pasquale, entered wearing a vivid green apron, for the Met staging makes him a passionate amateur gardener; he sang in a deeply resonant style that may ultimately restore their proper musical qualities to comic basso roles, long lost in mere boom-and-rasp renditions. Tenor Cesare Valletti sang with the sweetness and eloquence of a low-pressure Caruso. Pretty Coloratura Peters was expertly coquettish. Using her voice almost as if it were a tangible object, she tossed a trill to port, another to starboard, a third dead amidships of the great opera house...